Twitter is down again… this time a partial outage due to S3.
However, this time it’s their own fault for not using a caching proxy in front of S3.
This is just getting to the point where it’s embarrassing.
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July 20, 2008 at 7:33 pm
Seems like a caching proxy would eliminate much of the benefit of using S3. You’d pay for (expensive) bandwidth out of Amazon and again out of your proxy.
July 28, 2008 at 2:45 pm
One wonders why they don’t use a CDN for users with high follower counts at least.