I don't understand how asking to release features earlier in the week is asking a lot? What does that have to do with scaling social graphs? Jesse
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Nick Arnett <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Jesse Stay <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Thanks John. I appreciate the various ways of accessing this data, but >> when you guys make updates to any of these, can you either do it in a beta >> environment we can test in first, or earlier in the week? Where there are >> very few Twitter engineers monitoring these lists during the weekends, and >> we ourselves often have other plans, this really makes for an interesting >> weekend for all of us when changes go into production that break code. It >> happens, but it would be nice to have this earlier in the week, or in a beta >> environment we can test in. > > > > I think that's probably asking a lot of a company trying to grow as fast as > Twitter. Graphs are very hard to scale. Ask anybody who has tried. > > Now if the graph weren't dependent on a centralized system.... > > Nick > >
