Are We Too Depending on Twitter

Twitter site went down today as it keep prompting “Twitter is out of capacity”. According to MicroGuy, it is due to DoS attack. Due to it, a lot of twitter applications is facing problem on connecting to twitter’s API.


Distributed “Twitter-Style” Database Design

Wondering Twitter How’s…

I am really wondering how Twitter handle large volumns of requests every millisecond. Just imagine 350,000 twitter users posting one message at the same millisecond, there are total 350,000 requests to handle immediately. Let’s say Ervin Ter following Mr John Doe, once I viewing message posted by him, I am expecting to read [...]