Peak traffic of 874,560 Tweets per minute without Fail Whale coming up for air
Micro-blogging site Twitter experienced record traffic as the results of the 2012 US Presidential election were announced on Tuesday night, but the service never faltered despite the increased load – something Twitter engineers credit to the company's move from Ruby to Java for its backend software.…
via The Register - Networks
http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/08/twitter_epic_traffic_saved_by_java/
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