Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE
by dcow on Monday November 21, 2022 @11:34PM
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I have a piece of Rust software that has not gone down in its entire lifetime.
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Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE
by onionisafruit on Monday November 21, 2022 @11:38PM
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Me too. It’s a hello world web service I wrote while reading a tutorial after work this afternoon.
Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE
by mradek on Monday November 21, 2022 @11:46PM
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Thanks for the laugh I needed that
Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE
by polio on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @12:06AM
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By definition, no software goes down until its lifetime ends.
Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE
by jonahrd on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @12:19AM
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I would say the lifetime of a piece of software is different from the lifetime of the process running it.
Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE
by EdwardDiego on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @12:41AM
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Good for you!
Now, if your Rust code was a distributed system that handles spiky loads from ~330m users, and processes petabytes of data, then I'd consider your comparison relevant to Twitter.
But I'm going to assume it's not relevant.
P.S., I've written Java services that never went down, because they had a well defined domain and all potential errors were handled. But, I'm not about to compare that to all of frigging Twitter.