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From sucks to rocks: Flickr

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The Flickr Blog apologies for recent hiccups, and earns plaudits from users for so doing:

We’d like to apologize. The last few weeks have been pretty brutal for the Flickr team. Switching hardware platforms on a live site with hundreds of moving parts that’s serving thousands of requests each second (literally) is hard. Unpleasantly hard. [FlickrBlog]

Via Alison Pope.

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