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Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by jonas21 on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @12:25AM (#33702339)
Perhaps a closer analogy would be that the new boss rolled in and threw away 80% of the fire extinguishers.

Whether that will spell disaster when a fire occurs depends on whether the building had too many fire extinguishers to begin with and whether the boss can buy new, better fire extinguishers to replace some of the ones they got rid of before there's a fire.

Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by fenomas on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @12:38AM (#33702424)
> Perhaps a closer analogy would be that the new boss rolled in and threw away 80% of the fire extinguishers.

If we're deep-diving it'd be closer to say that he rolled in and sold 80% of the stuff, largely sight-unseen, and if a fire breaks out he'll find out how much of that stuff was fire extinguishers.