Jobs’ Death Taxes Internet Services
It’s not exactly news that Steve Jobs died last week, but when he did he had a bigger impact on Internet traffic than any event in history. At one point in the aftermath of his death, according to a post on the Computer Business Review blog, Twitter was exceeding an astonishing 10,000 tweets per second. To put that into perspective, Osama Bin Laden’s death triggered half as many tweets per second. As you would expect, news sites like CNN and Washington Post were also flooded with traffic as people tried to find out more about what happened. And CBR reports that even ecommerce...
read moreBad Stuff Can Still Happen to Prepared Companies
It happens to the best of companies. You might have all your monitoring bases covered and all your carefully crafted disaster plans in place, but sometimes no matter what you do, outages happen. If you doubt that, look at the world’s biggest cloud companies, the ones whose livelihood depends on being up and you’ll see they have some very well-publicized outages. Unlike say Amazon, Google or Microsoft, yours might not be so public, but it doesn’t mean the people affected are any less frustrated. The difference is your users probably aren’t on Twitter complaining and the...
read moreTwitter and Facebook Expand Data Centers. Should You?
Two of the biggest social networking services in the world announced they were expanding their data centers this week. They are doing it to stay ahead of demand and keep their apps running smoothly. Should you be doing this too? Twitter is increasing their server capacity to keep up with its growing user base which recently passed the 100 million mark, while Facebook is building more in anticipation of greater need due to its new Timeline feature announced yesterday at the Facebook F8 developer’s conference. Now you may be wondering what services like these have to do with your data...
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