TPP, Twitch Plays Pokemon , and it's overwhelmingly active chat has caused Twitch to move the interactive "game stream" to a different event chat server.

According to Twitch the "unique nature and huge chat participation" has put "enormous and unforeseen stress" on the main chat server forcing the firm to work on chat scaling improvements in the mean time.

“We’re always working on improving the QoS of our chat system, and this has been a wonderful learning experience for us. Our first adjustment on Sunday was to move the channel off of our general chat servers onto a dedicated event chat server, which we typically use for large events like The International and League Championship Series.

This helped, but there were some fundamental issues with our chat infrastructure that required a review. When a phenomenon like TPP comes along which increases load on the system many fold, it gives us a great opportunity to discover and fix new issues and issues that only raise their head under super high load.Twitch

Twitch has released that it is continuing to "hammer away" at their chat system to ensure this type of unilateral degradation of service doesn't happen again.

Posted: Feb 20, 2014 5:56 pm
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