Cisco buys Jabber. Crazy. (via John Grubber)
Jabber guru Jack Moffitt on Twitter's failures:
Do not listen to those who equate a service failure like Twitter’s with a failure of the underlying technology. It is not Ruby or Rails’ fault that Twitter experiences downtime, and it is not XMPP’s fault that Identi.ca has not managed to keep the public facing XMPP feeds reliable.
Jack Moffitt writes about choosing an XMPP Server and going with ejabberd:
The last part of our decision was to test server latency with ejabberd. We ran the same test that we ran on jabberd2, and ejabberd didn’t flinch. The measured latency at idle was twice as fast in some cases with ejabberd, and there was very little change even as we pounded the database to levels that would have made jabberd2 cry.