• We Read Twitter So You Don't Have To

    Twitter's real scaling problem revealed

    By Owen Thomas, 12:00 AM on Wed Jun 4 2008, 9,056 views (Edit post, Set to draft, Slurp)


    Twitter developer Alex Payne recently posted a long discourse attempting to explain why Twitter keeps going down, and why throwing more machines at the problem won't solve it. But we find his 140-character explanation, Twittered today, much more satisfying.

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