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Twitter Status - http://status.twitter.com/ No news at the status site either, that beats the purpose of having a dedicated status site.
Twitter Site Issue 17 seconds ago Users may be experiencing issues accessing Twitter. Our engineers are currently working to resolve the issue.
Yep. Even the subthread from the person complaining that this isn't newsworthy.
Not only is the website down, but it seems the entire API is as well.
Yep - stalling out big time. Good chance to test your error handling in a real world scenario!
I think this is another good example of how we as an industry are still unable to adequately assess risk properly. I'm fairly certain that the higher-ups in Twitter weren't told "We have pretty good failover protection, but there is a small risk of catastrophic failure where everything will go completely down." Whoever was in charge of disaster recovery obviously didn't really understand the risk. Just like the recen…
I think this is another good example of how we as an industry are still unable to adequately assess risk properly. I'm fairly certain that the higher-ups in Twitter weren't told "We have pretty good failover protection, but there is a small risk of catastrophic failure where everything will go completely down." Whoever was in charge of disaster recovery obviously didn't really understand the risk. Just like the recen…
Accidents happen. (expanding my reply) No risk assessment in the world will stop a cage monkey from tripping over a pile of 1Us and falling onto the big red button. Figure out what your pain threshold is and live with it.
Twitter Status - http://status.twitter.com/ No news at the status site either, that beats the purpose of having a dedicated status site.
I think this is another good example of how we as an industry are still unable to adequately assess risk properly. I'm fairly certain that the higher-ups in Twitter weren't told "We have pretty good failover protection, but there is a small risk of catastrophic failure where everything will go completely down." Whoever was in charge of disaster recovery obviously didn't really understand the risk. Just like the recen…
That's not necessarily true. People don't die when twitter is down, and whatever twitter's business model actually is, I am not even sure there is a monetary penalty to them being down (unlike, say, Amazon being down which results in lost orders). They may have made the calculation that it was not cost effective engineering-wise to chase that extra 0.001% of reliability.
[Edit: Pedantry shield: Ok, ok, should have said people don't die because twitter is down. Obviously people are dying all the time, and some will indeed expire while twitter is down].