[soci]

Not so long ago Twitter outages used to happen every now and then. It's quite interesting to see how now everybody expects it to be running 24/7.

[ricksplat]

Ah yes "the fail whale" was a common and much loved feature of day to day twife :-)

[airza]

I mean, one part of me has worked on the backend of uber-high-bandwidth computing services and understands that there is no analogue to performance at that scale, and the other part is like "IT PUTS WORDS THAT PEOPLE POSTED ON A BUNCH OF PAGES, YOU CAN IMPLEMENT THE CORE FUNCTIONALITY IN AN AFTERNOON."

So I guess I kinda get it.