This is a good photo essay on the offices and people at Twitter, an online service I've been proselytizing about lately. It's a bit self-referential fluff job for a product that still has a limited audience, but I still found it an interesting read especially with the accompanying fantastic photos.
The number of Twitter users has grown in the past year, and during events that spark a lot of twittering--such as technology conferences--popular users are constantly posting "tweets" to thousands of people. This puts strain on the underlying message-routing architecture, which, the Twitter founders admit, wasn't built to do such heavy lifting."
It's kind of shocking that their architecture isn't very scalable. One would think that nowadays this would be a priority, particularly for a service like Twitter unless they set the bar for concurrent usage to be very, very, very low. They need to address its lack of scalability immediately to ensure the future growth and success of Twitter.
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