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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 (#33703327)
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].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33703280

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Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by nebula8804 on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @05:47AM (#33704321)
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.
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