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Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by fastball on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @08:49PM (#33714087)
1) Their uptime was great. Regardless of what happened to their uptime after that (when they got to >1B MAU), they were already bigger than Twitter at that point, so...

2) Public broadcasts make a lot of things easier because that means more of your workload is relatively straightforward caching (as evidenced by this blog post).

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Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by throwaway290 on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @11:54AM (#33721635)
> great.

So, you don't have the numbers.

> easier

Have you even thought about moderation and all the other concerns that go with this? How does instantly notifying millions of devices helped with caching, for example?

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