A quick note on scaling 2.0 - Delicious??
I know, the big news on scaling (or the lack thereof) has been Twitter. More internet agitation on a given service, I have rarely seen. (oddly in the avalanche of complains, the one I like best is Winer’s where he suggests, rightly, that there is no replacement for Twitter, its energy is just evaporating). We’ll see if Twitter can make it through today. I hope they can.
But they are not the only one’s having a hard time coping. This piece on Delicious 2.0 rolled through my feed reader this morning. Delicious 2.0 is complete rewrite of the service under Yahoo’s guidance. See the keywords there? Complete rewrite and Yahoo. Then read this from the article:
Meanwhile, scaling issues have confounded the Delicious team and they continue to rework the architecture.
Um. Watchoo talkin’ about Willis?? I don’t even know where or how to begin formulating thoughts on this. It would be like hearing that NBC bought Curb Your Enthusiasm and couldn’t air them because they had spent the last 9 months trying to figure out where to put in the laugh tracks. Yahoo can’t figure out how to scale Delicious? It’s what they do! They’re one of the biggest companies on the internets. They already figured it all out. How is this conceivable?
It isn’t, we inherited a poor architecture and we’re figuring out a stopgap measure to whip into place to keep things running while we redo the whole thing. This is the big redo. The get it right from the start manoeuvre. I don’t know if TechCrunch reported that accurately, but if it is, well I just lost a little bit of hope in Yahoo.
