This particular design seems to be the official one, but twitter and its lackluster architecture has spawned an industry of twitter optimizers. Everyone and the

This particular design seems to be the official one, but twitter and its lackluster architecture has spawned an industry of twitter optimizers. Everyone and their brother is trying to do something about the fail-whale: I mean, "how hard could it be"? the test implementations are usually benchmarked off of 127.0.0.1 and the "lab" results are, theoretically, impressive. A similar thing happened when reddit switched to python from common lisp; a flurry of reddit clones in Lisp, each smaller/faster/"eleganter" (pick two) than the other.