Earlier in the week, we reported that Twitter was having many server issues, causing errors and frustration with its users. Yesterday, a Twitter engineer posted an article explaining the recent downtimes and performance issues with the popular social network. It appears that the error was caused because Twitter grew too quickly, too fast.
The engineer explained why the issues happened:
- Twitter put two critical, fast-growing, high-bandwith components on the same segment of their internal network.
- Twitter's internal network wasn't appropriately being monitored.
- Twitter's internal network was temporarily misconfigured.
To make sure that the issues don't happen again, the engineer also said that:
- Twitter has doubled the capacity of their internal network.
- Twitter is improving the monitoring of their internal network.
- Twitter is rebalancing the traffic on their internal network to redistribute the load [on the servers].
Were you affected by the downtimes?
