Karl Katzke

Many people have criticized Twitter’s uptime performance. For the geeks in the audience, this interview provides a good first-time-look at what they’re working with and what they plan to do to fix the problems. I’m rather shocked, actually. Brad Fitzgerald’s presentations on scaling Livejournal (pdf, 1.1MB) cover most of how to get around the problems that Twitter is facing, and have been available for four years on danga.com.