At 9:36a PT Mike Abbot posted the Great Migration story.
MONDAY, MARCH 21, 2011
The Great Migration, the Winter of 2011
If you look back at the history of Twitter, our rate of growth has largely outpaced the capacity of our hardware, software, and the company itself. Indeed, in our first five years, Twitter's biggest challenge was coping with our unprecedented growth and sightings of the infamous Fail Whale.
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I posted my blog post at 10:16AM.
Twitter's Data Center Migration Story on its 5th Birthday
MONDAY, MARCH 21, 2011 AT 10:16AM
At 7p I decided to check on the Twitter Data Center news and saw way more posts/articles than I would expect on a data center migration project.
SeattlePI (which uses the exact urls I referenced)
All these data center posts without a press release from Twitter, just a post on Twitter’s engineering blog.
And a little help from the Green Data Center blog.
What will be missed by most is the data center story by the Twitter engineering team.
Some of my most consistent readers are media and PR related.
We’ll see when Twitter tells their next data center story and how fast that story spreads.
Thanks for reading Green Data Center blog.