tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17639100.post2252594899015175124..comments2024-01-30T20:05:29.835+10:00Comments on Woolly Days: Blogger, Twitter and the rise of Evan WilliamsDerek Barryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15581505641163336050noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17639100.post-9561824207187579582009-10-19T21:43:15.153+10:002009-10-19T21:43:15.153+10:00I guess scalability is a good problem to have, it ...I guess scalability is a good problem to have, it means you must be doing something right and your audience is ahead of your expectations.<br /><br />Therefore it's worth patching up the HP desktop each time it is needed. Disk space is cheap, human creativity less so.Derek Barryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15581505641163336050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17639100.post-18507330581013284092009-10-18T08:13:34.350+10:002009-10-18T08:13:34.350+10:00Both Blogger and Twitter were initially built on a...Both Blogger and Twitter were initially built on a technical infrastructure which was clearly under-powered for the number of users they soon attracted -- in Blogger's case that "creaking HP desktop computer", and in Twitter's a web development and database framework that simply couldn't scale. And in both cases the users were willing to forgive the outages because the service was something they really liked.<br /><br />There's a message in there somewhere about the idea being more important than the engineering. Or maybe he's just lucky.Stilgherrianhttp://stilgherrian.comnoreply@blogger.com