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Twilio has a service-oriented architecture internally. We leverage a variety of application stacks for different services.

Several people have asked for additional details. We just posted a quick follow-on: [UPDATE] A central theme of the recent AWS issues has been the Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS…

Our main infrastructure is deployed on AWS but we have capacity at several cloud providers for load-balancing, redundancy, etc.

Yup, good idea. We set up an ngnix proxy to cache the page while the blog hosting provider fixes their server.

Ironically, this highlights one of the main issues we discuss in the post! The Twilio Engineering blog is hosted off an external Wordpress site with a single IP that's forwarded fr…

We just enabled caching on the ngnix proxy to the external site hosting our Wordpress install for the engineering blog. Hopefully that should help performance. -Evan Twilio.com

Hi Anthony, Twilio service status available via our public status page http://status.twilio.com/ We communicated degraded international SMS service to customers on August 16. You b…

For those wondering about the technical aspects of this decision take a look at this thread: http://getsatisfaction.com/twilio/topics/international_sms-1... When we launched the Tw…

In a 100% ideal scenario an organization would only need developers as every possible failure/problem would be covered and handled by automation. Obviously the real world is differ…

Can't someone whose role embodies a certain culture and philosophy not have a title that fits that goal? How would you define DevOps?

Thanks for the pointer to OpSec term. DevOpsSec... I sense a tshirt in the making?

Here a brief intro for those that aren't familiar with DevOps: http://www.jedi.be/blog/2010/02/12/what-is-this-devops-thing-anyway/ Before being introduced to the concept of DevOps…

Correct. Stashboard is simply a lightweight frontend display for your API/service status. It has a GUI and REST API that allow you to update status information. Using the API, one …

You might check out http://venmo.com/ They have a dead simple SMS payments platform. -evan (@twilio)

We provided an brief overview of how Twilio uses AWS here http://www.slideshare.net/twilio/twilio-voice-applications-w...

Props to Dave. All the flowery language, pictures, and hyperbole generate great discussion and traffic. Dave is one of the most savvy investors and marketers around. When we were f…

maybe i am too stupid but bookmarks are just too complicated for me... they are always on the wrong computer, organizing them is a pain, and i just don't trust them to a 3rd party …

because i found myself typing "hacker news" into google instead of typing all 20 characters into the url bar.