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Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by polio on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @12:31AM (#33702380)
If resource leaks became a serious issue I imagine they could buy time by restarting. I'm curious what the causes were for code freezes. At Meta they would freeze around Thanksgiving and NYE because of unusually high traffic.
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Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by drdrey on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @01:54PM (#33709527)
Same, code freezes were typically around holidays (when you know traffic will be elevated, engineers will be less available and you want increased stability)
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