Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE
by __bjoernd on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @03:14AM
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Knowing how to run a software company and knowing how to build software are two things. The first thing usually implies hiring the right people for the second thing. I’m sure Musk knows at least a bit of that, but everything we see with Twitter is that he’s axing those people at a rate that you can’t keep up hiring at. So there is some obvious disconnect here and I don’t think “Ah, he knows what he is doing “ is a sufficient explanation.
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Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE
by fastball on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @03:18AM
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He was the CTO of Zip2, a software company. He knows how software is built.
Sure he might not be a whiz with React like me or the OC, but... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
With regard to him firing too many people, see my thoughts about what his mindset might be here[1].
Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE
by nebula8804 on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @05:47AM
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The Zip2 application ran on a single PC. Technology has changed a lot from the early Java days(I think what Zip2 was written in). Perhaps this helps explain some of his public mistakes in understanding the codebase of Twitter.