100s of Twitter Employees Leaving After Musk's 'Extremely Hardcore' Work Demands

Re:100s of Twitter Employees Leaving After Musk's 'Extremely... by cratermoon on Thursday November 17, 2022 @09:53PM (#33649370)

I have a hunch that over Thanksgiving the increased traffic will break something, and there will be nobody around to fix it, so more stuff will break. I have a hunch that most of SRE people that would normally be watching the metrics ready to jump on anything starting to look dicey are gone.

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Re:100s of Twitter Employees Leaving After Musk's 'Extremely... by erk__ on Friday November 18, 2022 @01:37AM (#33651134)

Not just thanksgiving, by the world cup is starting next week as well and that usually drives a lot of traffic

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Re:100s of Twitter Employees Leaving After Musk's 'Extremely... by Ekaros on Friday November 18, 2022 @03:21AM (#33651853)

And World Cup traffic will be bursty. Big game, big event in game. Could really peak message volume and this is even geographically distributed.

So fun times for those left there to fight the fires.

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Re:100s of Twitter Employees Leaving After Musk's 'Extremely... by _moof on Friday November 18, 2022 @06:00AM (#33653002)

During the 2010 World Cup, Twitter crashed every time a goal was scored. It was a major motivation for the rearchitecture that changed it from a monorail to services. The rock-solid stability during the 2014 World Cup vindicated that effort.

With that context, the performance during this World Cup will be especially meaningful.

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