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- Can Twitter's backbone handle sudden jump in popularity?
- For the past week or so, I've been noticing - and hearing some rumblings about - a greater-than-normal number of overload errors spewing from Twitter. Even though the overloads likely are stemming from the recent mainstream Twitter craze - which is a good thing - it's clear that Twitter is...
- Tags: Backbone, Jason Perlow, Twitter, Mainframes, Storage, Telecommunications, Servers, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-04-10
- How to end the Fail Whales? With Blue Whales.
- Twitter's "Fail Whale" logo is cute, but solving the popular service's availability and scalability issues will be paramount if the web is to rely on it as a communications medium. So, I've been Twittering for a while. I was skeptical of the service...
- Tags: Client-server, Scalability, Twitter, IBM Corp., Storage, Mainframes, Databases, Servers, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-04-10
- Build your own Google
- In an earlier post I talked a bit about a start-up called Kickfire who are releasing an accelerated database appliance for MySQL applications in the 1TB-3TB range that gives comparable performance to an equivalent Oracle RDBMS setup for around a quarter of the price. Kickfire sounds compelling for utility...
- Tags: Google Inc., Worker, Aster, Aster Beehives, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
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