Twitter’s twitches highlight the difficulty of building to scale
Building to scale — admittedly it’s not really that exciting of a topic.
It doesn’t bring out the debate and controversy that, say, energy efficiency comparisons do. But “building to scale” turns out to be really important, and not always that easy to do.
Twitter’s recent downtime shows the difficult goal of network scalability and reliability.Twitter - the current hip and trendy messaging application - is figuring this out firsthand. This week Twitter has had recurring issues with downtime and application reliability, which in part looks to be caused by an overloaded system that can’t scale to meet user demand.
It is becoming an all-to-common problem in today’s …
