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The Real Lessons From Twitter and it’s an Evolving Architecture

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If you were thrown into a fight, would you start punching or would you open up your iphone and start browsing web pages about Karate? :

  • 1. If people use it, it’s valuable
  • 2. Product, Team, Market? Team.
  • 3. Rails was never the problem (see link below : twitter started as a cms…)

and InfoQ has Twitter, an Evolving Architecture, a recent (for 2009 values of recent) and detailed write-up of Twitter’s current architecture, explaining the four layers of cache (all memcached) used by the Twitter API, based on a talk given by Evan Weaver, Lead Engineer in the Services Team at Twitter, who’s primarily job is optimization and scalability, where he talked about Twitter’s architecture and especially the optimizations performed over the last year to improve the web. The slides from his talk are also online qcon presentation, good stuff.

A Successful Failure – Fail Whale

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fail whale Yiying Lu Lifting Up a Dreamer

Lifting Up a Dreamer or Fail Whale

via the New York Times’s the story of the Fail Whale that we love and hate, and the an artist and designer behind it.

See the in it’s native enviroment.

Via Flickr, you can see some of the variations on the Fail Whale theme.

ReadWriteWeb also previously posted on the had

Update : on Wired : Twitter Paid $6 or Less for Crowdsourced ‘Birdie’ Graphic, the cautionary tale of Simon Oxley, the Japan-based Brit who licensed the bird graphic to Twitter for the price of a sandwich, through iStockphoto.

Unlike Twitter’s “fail whale” graphic, which the company purchased outright after it appeared on iStockphoto, Oxley’s bird design remains on the site where it can be licensed under the same terms Twitter received. Nothing is stopping people from making sites that ape, mock or build upon Twitter using its own official graphic.