You will say.. huh what is the relation? There is no, but still i could not help thinking.
i have read the news from TechCrunch, the hosting company Joyent drops the Ruby on Rails fame Twitter service which was struggling recently.
"Twitter has been officially off Joyent since 10PM last night. This may come as a surprise to some after yesterday’s posts here and here regarding the two companies working together..... When reached over the phone, Joyent’s CEO David Young preferred not to comment on Twitter’s stability issues in particular. He did emphasize that Joyent has free infrastructure on standby should Twitter want to use it again. He also wished Twitter the best of luck,"
From what i know, Joyent has some serious infrastructure. After i read this, i remembered an article from Mailinator author Paul Tyma. Mailinator not only receives and sends e-mails, it also checks for spam, and does content processing.
"At this point, Mailinator averages approximately 2.5million emails per
day. I have seen hourly spikes that would result in about 5million in a
day. (Edit: Feb 2007 - One month later we're averaging 4.5million emails a day with spikes over 6million) In addition, the system also services several thousand web users and several thousand RSS users per day.
In
the world of email services, this probably isn't all that much. The
most interesting part to me is that the complete set of hardware that
mailinator uses is one little server. Just one. A very modest machine
with an AMD 2Ghz Athlon processor, 1G of ram (although it really
doesn't need that much), and a boring IDE, 80G hard drive"
Mailinaor may not be the same category application with Twitter, but it sure handles a lot of information with ridiculous hardware (A side note, i also suggest reading other articles from Mailinator Blog). I just wondered what kind of resources twitter was consuming.
it is possible to write bad performing applications in any platform, but in some, it is not possible to achieve the performance no matter what you do.. tweet..
