Re:Twittering About Architecture
by jbyers on Thursday May 22, 2008 @04:35PM
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Nicely written. The authors of nearly all the myriad "how to fix twitter" posts I've read have trivialized scaling a site that has different properties from most online services. Scaling anything to twitter-like traffic levels is hard, and you won't know exactly why it's hard until you do it. I'm deeply skeptical of any armchair architect who says otherwise.
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I agree. A very respectful way of saying "stfu, we know what we're doing". I'm glad the devs came out with this in the fashion that they did.
Scaling anything to twitter-like traffic levels is hard
But we've had e-mail working fine for years, and Twitter is just e-mail.
Not sure why you got modded down because it's essentially true and I took their post to be alluding to as much. My intuition tells me that though they are huge, they aren't remotely in the same area as AIM, MSN, GMail, Yahoo Mail, etc. Twitter hangs right in the middle of being an instant messaging and email service.
I'll leave the armchair architecting to others.