Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Flickr Meltdown
CROSSPOSTED FROM IMAGESPACE--ARTS AND WEB 2.0
Last night Flickr had a caching meltdown. Basically when one opened up an image page the wrong image was displayed. What was supposed to be a fish from the aquarium opened up as a fashion model. It was a sort of strange experience. Then BLAM a splash page went up that read "Flickr is Getting a Massage" with a link to the Flickr Blog with updates.
Flickr made a good decision keeping folks abreast of exactly what was going on. They then followed up with a full explanation. Note that the node is called "crappola.html". It gave me a chuckle.
Apparently on a high traffic day, Flickr serves up a billion photos. That is astonishing. Images that were embedded in Web sites seemed to have been served up intact without a problem.
All in all I thought that it was refreshing that a company as big as Yahoo! would be as transparent as they were.
Tags: flickr, massage, meltdown
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