Re: [twitter-dev] lockouts are the new black

2010-07-06 Thread Isaiah Carew
John, Do you measure the number of lockouts? Or maybe a better question is: do you have metrics on how reducing rate limits is impacting users? isaiah http://twitter.com/isaiah On Jul 6, 2010, at 9:10 AM, John Kalucki wrote: > These lockouts are almost certainly due to a performance optimiza

Re: [twitter-dev] lockouts are the new black

2010-07-06 Thread Pascal Jürgens
With "multi-level loosely-coordinated best-effort distributed cache" you certainly got the naming, all that's left is the cache invalidation. :) Pascal On Jul 6, 2010, at 18:10 , John Kalucki wrote: > These lockouts are almost certainly due to a performance optimization > intended to reduce ne

Re: [twitter-dev] lockouts are the new black

2010-07-06 Thread John Kalucki
These lockouts are almost certainly due to a performance optimization intended to reduce network utilization by increasing physical reference locality in a multi-level loosely-coordinated best-effort distributed cache. Not easy to get right, and the engineers involved are working to resolve the iss

[twitter-dev] lockouts are the new black

2010-07-06 Thread Isaiah Carew
Lockouts are now common and frequent for everyday users doing normal things. I have dozens of reports from my users being locked out. And I've noticed that nearly every Twitter client developer has posted about this in a blog or Tweet. Several in just the last 24 hours. I know that the goal