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Re:Why S3 went down by mechanical_fish on Friday July 25, 2008 @10:02PM (#257307)
On Sunday, we saw a large number of servers that were spending almost all of their time gossiping and a disproportionate amount of servers that had failed while gossiping.

This is my favorite sentence of the day.

Now every time I see that damned whale on Twitter I'm going to find myself involuntarily crying out, "Oh, no! Failed while Gossiping!"

Re:Why S3 went down by alabut on Saturday July 26, 2008 @10:36AM (#257552)
The converse is true too, when Twitter is up and running just fine. I'm going to think of that every time I tweet - I succeeded at gossiping and failed at working.