Mashable / Social Media
Twitter has just explained the causes of — and remedies for — its multiple and massive failures over the past week.
The high number of errors and generally poor performance were reminiscent of the Great Twitter Outages of the summer of 2009. Once again, this summer’s problem has been one of scale: Twitter is growing so much and so quickly that the engineering team has been challenged when trying to keep up with the sheer volume of data going through the service’s internal network.
What happened that caused this week’s Twitter issues, wrote engineer Jean-Paul Cozzatti, is that the engineering team made three critical mistakes:
Twitter’s Performance Problems Explained By a Twitter Engineer.
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