Happy Happy Joyent
We've noticed that people really like to use Twitter during shared events—and not just scary events like earthquakes or presidential campaigns. The Super Bowl is a shared event for an estimated 130-140 million people in the United States. It makes us glad that our trusty infrastructure provider Joyent has us covered with extra capacity—for free!
In fact, throughout our amazing growth, Twitter has relied on Joyent's highly scalable infrastructure. While we're busy building Twitter, Joyent is working tirelessly to bring in more RAM, more CPUs, more hardware, and more late night support—never charging us for bandwidth is worth an extra mention.
The decision to choose Joyent at an early stage was one of the big decisions that contributed to Twitter's success. If you are building a Web app and you need to scale it to Twitter size, Joyent can absolutely help you grow. Thanks Joyent, and go Patriots! (Or Giants, if that's your thing.)
In fact, throughout our amazing growth, Twitter has relied on Joyent's highly scalable infrastructure. While we're busy building Twitter, Joyent is working tirelessly to bring in more RAM, more CPUs, more hardware, and more late night support—never charging us for bandwidth is worth an extra mention.The decision to choose Joyent at an early stage was one of the big decisions that contributed to Twitter's success. If you are building a Web app and you need to scale it to Twitter size, Joyent can absolutely help you grow. Thanks Joyent, and go Patriots! (Or Giants, if that's your thing.)
posted by Biz at 2:37 PM
10 Comments:
Joyent or Twitter needs to get off your collective butts and solve this rampant downtime issue. I'm talking, get off infrastructure (hardware and software) that isn't scaling when demand increases. Thats when people need it and it's not there. I'd happily pay a monthly fee to ensure that Twitter was always available and lately - at this moment included - it's down.
It was explained to me from several people that your problem starts and ends with Joyent. I realize scaling to needs on the fly is difficult but it's mainly a hardware issue at this point in time. There have been lots of minor updates to twitter but nothing major has happened in recent times. You have a vastly dedicated user base, they stick around even with downtime and limited API features. Just don't become the MySpace this little realm. At the moment Pownce doesn't even pose a threat, but don't give it an excuse to become the Facebook of the situation. The downtime needs to end, if tonight the recent downtime do to updates is needed, then so be it, but make it the end of this.
It was explained to me from several people that your problem starts and ends with Joyent. I realize scaling to needs on the fly is difficult but it's mainly a hardware issue at this point in time. There have been lots of minor updates to twitter but nothing major has happened in recent times. You have a vastly dedicated user base, they stick around even with downtime and limited API features. Just don't become the MySpace this little realm. At the moment Pownce doesn't even pose a threat, but don't give it an excuse to become the Facebook of the situation. The downtime needs to end, if tonight the recent downtime do to updates is needed, then so be it, but make it the end of this.
I'm delighted by the irony of you posting this while your site is down thanks to joyent's incompetence
You've got to be kidding... In the last 24 hours Twitter has been more down than not. So much for the successful scaling up.
Twitter being down right now has absolutely nothing to do with Joyent. There are plenty of Rails-based applications that scale, and a lot more is needed than just throwing hardware at it.
Twitter is one of my favorite applications and I would like to continue using the service. I hope they figure out the issues and resolve them quickly.
TWITTER FUCKING SUCKS> FAIL FAIL FAIL
Throwing more machines at the problem just makes you look like you don't know what you're doing.
One of these things is not like the other...
http://www.joyeur.com/2008/01/31/twitter-and-joyent-update
Joynet? What the fuck? Twitter needs re-coded and put in a reliable colocation.
And rails? Jesus
Where'd the $5M go?
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