Twitter addresses scalability concerns by hiring new specialists
Date Published: May 2nd, 2008
Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter recently published their ’semi-monthly’ newsletter on what is new with Twitter and some interesting stories of how Twitter has been used.
This month was particularly interesting because Twitter has been the source of much of the conversations this month in the blogosphere due to another service disruption over the April long-weekend.
Also Twitter management fired their lead architect Blaine Cook who was responsible for making Twitter scale. Clearly this should be not a surprise if you consider how often Twitter has gone down when compared to other companies that grew at similar rates.
Biz Stone also announced they have effectively hired two replacements
John Kalucki is an experienced distributed systems architect well versed in relational messaging as the former co-founder of San Francisco based SQLstream. Steve Jenson is a familiar face for a few of us here at Twitter HQ because he’s a former Google software engineer known for his work scaling Blogger and Blogspot–a service which tens of millions of people use on a regular basis.
Clearly Twitter HQ felt there was a need to not only fix the problem but bolster public opinion and confidence that Twitter will in fact put their instability issues to bed once and for all.
Does Twitter’s instability really bother you?
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