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Foursquare Is Down… Yes, Again
Once again, Foursquare is down for the count.Not two hours after posting a detailed blog entry about why its servers failed for the majority of the day yesterday and what the company is doing to prevent further downtime, Foursquare is unavailable to its users.
According to a brief update on the company’s new status blog, the same issues that caused yesterday’s 11 hour outage are also responsible for today’s downtime.
The reason for both outages lies in Foursquare’s database management and architecture — that’s not to say Foursquare’s systems engineers are doing anything wrong, per se. But scaling is difficult, tricky business, and Foursquare is growing much more rapidly than is has since its inception.
The launch of Facebook Places about one month ago caused the app’s new registrations to skyrocket Shortly after that launch, Foursquare broke through the 3 million mark.
Lets hope they can iron these issues out without losing support from its users.
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