The Twitter Engineering Blog: The Anatomy of a Whale

ENGINEERING.TWITTER.COM - By Ed Ceaser (@asdf) and Nick Kallen (@nk)Sometimes it's really hard to figure out what's causing problems in a web site like Twitter. But over time we have learned some techniques that help us to solve the variety of problems that occur in our complex web site.A few weeks ago, we noticed something unusual: over 100 visitors to Twitter per second saw what is popularly known as "the fail whale".…

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