Comments on: Twitter http://www.opticality.com/blog/2007/05/16/twitter/ Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:06:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jamie Thingelstad http://www.opticality.com/blog/2007/05/16/twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-7355 Jamie Thingelstad Thu, 17 May 2007 04:33:49 +0000 http://www.opticality.com/blog/?p=35#comment-7355 <em>Okay -- first off -- I'm commenting on your blog from your living room. This is wierd.</em> :-)<br><br>The scale issues I guessed at were very true. Twitter has grown like nothing else, and the Rails framework under it has shown some stress. It's famously been debated in public on various blogs. It started with a <a href="http://www.radicalbehavior.com/5-question-interview-with-twitter-developer-alex-payne/" rel="nofollow">comment from one of the Twitter</a> guys and then responded to by David Hanssen <a href="http://www.loudthinking.com/" rel="nofollow">on his site</a>.<br><br>It's been an interesting debate to watch, just in that it shows some of the stresses with scaling open source stuff. You are on your own ultimately. Okay — first off — I’m commenting on your blog from your living room. This is wierd. :-)

The scale issues I guessed at were very true. Twitter has grown like nothing else, and the Rails framework under it has shown some stress. It’s famously been debated in public on various blogs. It started with a comment from one of the Twitter guys and then responded to by David Hanssen on his site.

It’s been an interesting debate to watch, just in that it shows some of the stresses with scaling open source stuff. You are on your own ultimately.

]]> By: Jamie Thingelstad http://www.opticality.com/blog/2007/05/16/twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-665 Jamie Thingelstad Thu, 17 May 2007 03:33:49 +0000 http://www.opticality.com/blog/?p=35#comment-665 <em>Okay -- first off -- I'm commenting on your blog from your living room. This is wierd.</em> :-) The scale issues I guessed at were very true. Twitter has grown like nothing else, and the Rails framework under it has shown some stress. It's famously been debated in public on various blogs. It started with a <a href="http://www.radicalbehavior.com/5-question-interview-with-twitter-developer-alex-payne/" rel="nofollow">comment from one of the Twitter</a> guys and then responded to by David Hanssen <a href="http://www.loudthinking.com/" rel="nofollow">on his site</a>. It's been an interesting debate to watch, just in that it shows some of the stresses with scaling open source stuff. You are on your own ultimately. Okay — first off — I’m commenting on your blog from your living room. This is wierd. :-)

The scale issues I guessed at were very true. Twitter has grown like nothing else, and the Rails framework under it has shown some stress. It’s famously been debated in public on various blogs. It started with a comment from one of the Twitter guys and then responded to by David Hanssen on his site.

It’s been an interesting debate to watch, just in that it shows some of the stresses with scaling open source stuff. You are on your own ultimately.

]]> By: thingelstad.com - Stranded in New York http://www.opticality.com/blog/2007/05/16/twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-664 thingelstad.com - Stranded in New York Thu, 17 May 2007 03:28:54 +0000 http://www.opticality.com/blog/?p=35#comment-664 [...] I got a voicemail from friends in New York. He’s on Twitter, and saw my flailing desperation. I had considered calling them but I was still clinging to the [...] [...] I got a voicemail from friends in New York. He’s on Twitter, and saw my flailing desperation. I had considered calling them but I was still clinging to the [...]

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