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Re:Twitter's high ROI engineering work by zimpenfish on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @12:52PM (#33627399)
> Elon knows nothing by bringing up RPCs

As best I understand the Twitter spat, he was claiming the client was making 1000 RPCs to generate the home timeline - hence it being slower in India where mobile internet is slower. Except the Android dev pointed out it was actually only 6 (IIRC) calls from the client and slowness had nothing to do with that.

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Re:Twitter's high ROI engineering work by tjchear on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @05:46PM (#33631997)
Didn't Elon clarify that he's referring to the RPCs between services in the BE?
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Re:Twitter's high ROI engineering work by guax on Thursday November 17, 2022 @05:06AM (#33636920)
So there is a specific BE only for a region that is slow but another that is not?
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Re:Twitter's high ROI engineering work by zimpenfish on Thursday November 17, 2022 @06:47AM (#33637642)
Possible he did, I suppose, but I never saw it in any of the recaps / threads. But also wouldn't make a lick of sense talking about India vs US for speed...
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