Last night Flickr had a caching meltdown.  Basically when one opened up an image page the wrong image was displayed.  What was supposed to be a fish from the aquarium opened up as a fashion model.  It was a sort of strange experience.  Then BLAM a splash page went up that read "Flickr is Getting a Massage" with a link to the Flickr Blog with updates.
Flickr made a good decision keeping folks abreast of exactly what was going on.  They then followed up with a full explanation.  Note that the node is called "crappola.html".  It gave me a chuckle.
Apparently on a high traffic day, Flickr serves up a billion photos.  That is astonishing.  Images that were embedded in Web sites seemed to have been served up intact without a problem.
All in all I thought that it was refreshing that a company as big as Yahoo! would be as transparent as they were.
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