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This makes me respect both ex-Twitter and current Twitter employees for writing such a solid scalable platform. A lot of ignorant folks are downplaying the technical complexity involved in building Twitter, saying it’s just a website . I can bet that half of these folks have never worked on high scale distributed applications. Seriously , tusk fans, please be humble if you can .
How did the aqueducts still provide water after the fall of Rome? The construction and engineering is just that good
Solid analogy 👏
Literally
🙄 deploying new, quick and dirty code will destabilize it, it being up is not the miracle you think it is
They are on deployment freeze, they is why it is still working
Knew it lol 😇
If we stop roadmap for certain things, we can easily keep it running with 30% staff. Just no more features will be rolled out.
Depends on how readable your code is. Cicd should’ve already set up
Simple, it wasn’t running manually by those who left. They were doing various other functions and not the keepers to keep it running. Such a global app and website is fully automated and it will only go down when maintenance is required and not performed or when someone new with half or no knowledge of how it’s running tries to play with it.
Being fully automated is not really a thing unless you're talking about general purpose AI which can learn on the fly and handle new situations. Every automation is designed to run itself under specific parameters. The system corrects itself when something goes bad within the same parameters. Same goes for infra, the automation is only good until the first fault that it's not designed for. Then it's anyone's guess.
Definition of working is the key. Is the content moderation working as expected. Are the advertisers getting right engagement. How is it going to pay for the infrastructure cost? He can’t fire servers can he.
This. Idk why people care that much about Twitter loading. Why wouldn’t it. But it’s not a software company. It’s a social media company, and other parts, like moderation, matter way more
Probably they were bringing nothing more than diversity to the table?
Copyright enforcement has stopped working. That will be a fun one to watch.
The fantasy! Wasn’t Twitter supposed to not last through the weekend?
That was mass hysteria after the ultimatum passed serious engineers like myself were not saying this
You will never understand importance of proactive Risk management until you see the impact of of it. Even the best in class architecture and infrastructure fails if they are not leveling up their game. Twitter is running today but can it survive next 6months without a data breach??!!
Ok captain obvious. No one at Twitter has thought of this.
From those in charge of Twitter now? For sure. He cannot even think a week ahead.
Most of Dev teams are working on new stuff not maintaining the existing system. Oncall, essential bug fixes probably make up 15-20% of a teams effort. Then their will be evergreening, regulatory obligations etc and then new build work. If you cut all the new build work and some of the maintenance work to lights on you can do with far fewer people. The issues show up over time or … the new work wasn’t really needed. There will be ads, integrity etc that need a lot of work just to stay still but these falling behind won’t show up for some time. Easy to do things quick with technical debt which also won’t show up for some time. By which point Elon will declare victory at cleaning the swamp and either sell or start hiring again
Nope bunch of contractors wrote the original code under Dorsey and he hired bunch of losers who did absolutely nothing
I imagine you took part in the hiring to know this much
Source: heard from sidechick’s pet who is the engineering director at Twitter