Twitter's Yao Yue on Latency, Performance Monitoring, & Caching at Scale
The InfoQ Podcast
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What Are Some Interesting Problems You've Run Into?
One of my favorites was the ddos incident. We had ellen the generous treated a selfe of herself and a bunch of other big stars having at good time, a ospers and an encouraged her followers to retweed and favour it because they wanted break a record on twitter. And that actually broke twie. Surprisingly, they generated enough traffic that some of the services started timing out to one particular cash server the hosts that tweat. So what do you do to way your time out? You re try the one cavia there is. Before they re try they actual also tear down the connection. A better strategy is to treat request time out enly from other connection health problems
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