The good people at Flickr posted a blog entry to explain why their mighty system went a bit haywire a couple of days ago: "Tonight's problem - an explaination.
I'm struck by a few things
1) How enormous Flickr has become - up to a billion images served each day!!!! And yet most people have never heard of Flickr! The Internet is BIG!
2) The informality of their explaination. It's quite sincere, and yet not in the usual "business speak" that say a corporate IT shop would use to explain any problems it has suffered. (I wonder if they'd "get off" with that if Flickr was a business critical app???)
3) As usual with any application (or anything) that is a success is their attention to detail. The permalink for the blog posting points to a page called "crapola.html"!!!!!
Wednesday, 21 February 2007
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