A Look At One Way Twitter Prepares For Hardware Failures

 In a perfect world, Twitter’s Head of Infrastructure and Operations Mazdak Hashemi can walk over to a data center and kick out a power cable to a server, and the service will continue to run fine. He’s not going to do that just yet, but he and his team have been devising ways to simulate those sorts of failures within Twitter and ensure that the service remains up and running. Read More