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At some point they'll end up just doing the Bieber rack [1]. It's when a shard becomes so hot that it just has to be its own thing entirely. [1] - https://www
by VWWHFSfQ 2y ago
At some point they'll end up just doing the Bieber rack [1]. It's when a shard becomes so hot that it just has to be its own thing entirely.
[1] - https://www.themarysue.com/twitter-justin-bieber-servers/ https://www.themarysue.com/twitter-justin-bieber-servers/
@bluesky devs, don't feel ashamed for doing this. It's exactly how to scale these kinds of extreme cases.
- stavros 2y agoGiven that BlueSky is funded by Twitter, I'm assuming they know a lot more than us on how Twitter architects systems.
- genewitch 2y agoI've stood up machines for this before I did not know they had a name, and I worked at the mouse company and my parking spot was two over from a J. Beibe'rs spot. So now we have Slashdot effect, HN hug, and its not Clarkson its... Stephen Fry effect? Maybe can be Cross-Discipline - there's a term for when lots of UK turns their kettles on at the same time. I should make a blog post to record all the ones I can remember.
- k1t 2y agoTV Pickup aka the Half Time Kettle Effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_pickup https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_pickup
- bitbckt 2y agoWe never actually had a literal “Bieber Box”, but the joke took off. Hot shards were definitely an issue, though.
- Imustaskforhelp 2y agoIts so crazy. Thanks a lot for sharing this link.