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November 4, 2008 at 6:31 am
SueMarks
It has been like that over a week. How about a THWAAAACCKKK on the side of the head of twitter
November 4, 2008 at 8:27 am
Mike Warot
It’s bad engineering done by kids with no experience trying to cram 2 new features into code that already consumes 511 of the available 512 bytes of code in a 68HC11. Or at least that’s what this crotchety old programmer thinks.
The last time I did the math, twitter had an aggregate flow rate somewhere around 60k / second. Let’s presume growth, and say it’s now 100k/second. I’ve got a stack of old PCs in my office, and I’d be willing to bet cold hard cash that I could take 10 of them, and make them into a cluster capable of handling the full tweet load.
Twitter is the Chicago Cubs of networking services. It’ll be better, just wait until next year!
–Mike–
November 4, 2008 at 8:29 am
Mike Warot
By the way.. this is what Cold Hard Cash really looks like:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Silver_Eagle
Not some namby-pampy soon to be hyperinflated greenback.