Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE

Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by P5fRxh5kUvp2th on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @09:35AM (#33706211)

When people say this it's because they assume there's not stupid ass politics or moat building.

THEY could probably do it with 100 people, YOU cannot.

100 people is most likely within the ballpark for a group of people whose sole purpose is to write and maintain twitter's tech stack. Unfortunately, that is not NEARLY the sole purpose of most people in businesses and that adds all kinds of productivity hits.

What happens is that people like yourself become convinced that's the only way to operate.

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Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by TheCoelacanth on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @09:50AM (#33706392)

The question is not how many people to maintain an app with the functionality of Twitter, it's how many people to maintain Twitter. Twitter has to maintain Twitter's actual app, not an app that you built to be maintainable by 100 people. You can't say whether that's possible without knowing how Twitter actually works.

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Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by P5fRxh5kUvp2th on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @10:52AM (#33707051)

I could certainly build a version of twitter that didn't require so many people.

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Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by ric2b on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @06:05PM (#33712819)

You could have saved Musk a lot of money then, too late now.

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