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Re: Twitter over capacity
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 08:17:48 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Lee Revell <rlrevell () joe-job com> Date: April 24, 2009 3:39:12 AM EDT To: dave () farber net Cc: ip <ip () v2 listbox com>, drallison () gmail com, ip () sanction net, kenneth_mayer () dell com Subject: Re: [IP] Re: Twitter over capacity Of course it can be done. But that kind of high availability doesn't come cheap. The designers of Twitter couldn't have known at the time that their system would quickly become so important to so many. I think that for a tech startup with an unproven product, to engineer to that kind of SLA from day one would probably not be considered a wise use of capital by most investors. And in my experience at least, cutting over from that initial system to the shiny new highly-available one is really, really hard to do with no downtime. Lee On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 8:22 AM, David Farber <dave () farber net> wrote:
Telephone and other systems are deigned to be maintained while the system is running. I helped many years ago with the ESS system to enable it to do tht.There are lots of systems which are non stop. djf Begin forwarded message: From: Lee Revell <rlrevell () joe-job com> Date: April 20, 2009 12:20:38 PM EDT To: dave () farber net Cc: ip <ip () v2 listbox com> Subject: Re: [IP] Twitter over capacity Is there any good time to do maintenance on a worldwide service? I'd love to hear what it is... LeeOn Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:29 AM, David Farber <dave () farber net> wrote:SUNDAY AT 7 PM?? DJF Begin forwarded message: From: Robert Alberti <ip () sanction net> Date: April 20, 2009 8:02:03 AM EDT To: dave () farber net, drallison () gmail com Cc: ip <ip () v2 listbox com> Subject: Re: [IP] Twitter over capacity Reply-To: alberti () sanction net To be fair, you were doing this on a Sunday night, which is typicallywhen data centers undertake their maintenance processes. They may havebeen running on a skeleton system during updates. On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 20:07 -0400, David Farber wrote:Begin forwarded message: From: Dennis Allison <drallison () gmail com> Date: April 19, 2009 7:47:41 PM EDT To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net> Subject: Twitter over capacity For IP if you wish. Just tried to tweet and got a diagnostic saying twitter.com was overcapacity. There is a mess there somewhere about scaling and capacityin the face of sudden popularity. ______________________________________________________________________ Archives------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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