Explain the first 10 lines of Twitter's source code to me

Re:Explain the first 10 lines of Twitter's source code to me by psyc on Friday February 25, 2022 @09:54PM (#30474884)

Sure. I’m like the person you replied to. It’s three things. 1) It took me 25+ years to amass the expertise. 2) It’s a hobby first, and a career second. 3) Since the beginning I always choose to see how things are the same more than how they are different. Goes for languages, hardware, APIs, OSes, protocols, everything. I insist on seeing it all as superficial variations on the same thing, no matter what anybody says.

Oh but I don’t know how to do SRE. No interest.

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Re:Explain the first 10 lines of Twitter's source code to me by withinboredom on Saturday February 26, 2022 @01:23AM (#30475585)

Same. It took about 25+ years, and a hobby that happens to pay the bills. Interesting that you say that about how things are similar. It’s so true! The same patterns/abstractions are everywhere, just with different words in them, different orders, and sometimes, different names.

I also have no interest in an SRE role. I don’t like being on-call. I build systems to fail gracefully so I never work weekends, but most people don’t do that for some reason.

I currently work as a SWE. We don’t have explicit roles where I work, but my responsibilities are in-line with a principal or lead engineer.

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