Eating burritos with LG (now working at Twitter), Jon, and EDX.
Me: "LG, have you been watching the World Cup?"
LG: "Yes, in fact I watch the games very intensely, because the instant a goal is scored, we switch the Twitter GSLBs to point to a colo with better write performance. Usually traffic is optimized for reads instead of writes."
Me: "Awesome."
colo = ?
ReplyDeleteGSLBs = Global Server Load Balancing
ReplyDeleteColo - Colocation centre - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colocation_centre
Geeky but funny post.
It's a good thing soccer is such a low-scoring game.
ReplyDeleteIf it were high-scoring, people wouldn't tweet as much for each goal. (Nobody tweets for every basket during an important basketball game.) It may actually be a lesser problem if it were high-scoring.
ReplyDeletecool. street fighting mathematics.
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