Comments on: Using Metrics to Vanquish the Fail Whale http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/06/23/twitter-using-metrics-to-vanquish-the-fail-whale/ News and analysis about data centers, cloud computing, managed hosting and disaster recovery Tue, 14 Feb 2012 04:07:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: John Adams http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/06/23/twitter-using-metrics-to-vanquish-the-fail-whale/comment-page-1/#comment-4345 John Adams Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:25:56 +0000 http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/?p=12228#comment-4345 You've gotten most of my words right, one correction: Twitter doesn't slow down site performance instead of sending a whale. We maintain site performance by delaying timelines or background processing tasks. There's no noticeable site delay, just a delay in the timeline (say, a message that is slightly older than real-time.) You’ve gotten most of my words right, one correction:

Twitter doesn’t slow down site performance instead of sending a whale.

We maintain site performance by delaying timelines or background processing tasks. There’s no noticeable site delay, just a delay in the timeline (say, a message that is slightly older than real-time.)

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