Twitter users can finally look forward to a week where they will actually receive all their messages (hey - there is nothing wrong with some optimism). According to the latest update on the Twitter blog, their newest hire quickly figured out what had gone wrong:
Twitter has hired another amazing engineer (and just in time, too). Robey came in over the weekend along with the rest of the eng and ops team to work on bugs—especially those that might be related to the case of the missing updates. In fact, Robey discovered what looks to have been the key: a timeout in Starling, the message queue server we recently open sourced.
A lot of people had been reporting that they were missing a large number of updates from their friends over the last week or so.
Now that Twitter has hired a new engineer who, it seem, really knows what he is doing, we can hopefully look for reliability to slowly become less of an issue for the Twitter crew.
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