Meta is about to start its next round of layoffs

Re:Meta is about to start its next round of layoffs by linza on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @02:41AM (#35624999)

I think you cannot really salvage this argument. The way you describe it makes it sound to me that your company's success is ore likely due to luck and not just competence. It's also not clear if you really think this is a model that can scale to the size of Meta or if you just wanted to slide in a humblebrag.

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Re:Meta is about to start its next round of layoffs by 908B64B197 on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @11:18AM (#35629233)

> It's also not clear if you really think this is a model that can scale to the size of Meta or if you just wanted to slide in a humblebrag.

It can't. It depends on "software services" hosted and coded by "other software companies" so his infra's SLA is basically outsourced to either Amazon, Microsoft or Oracle.

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Re:Meta is about to start its next round of layoffs by EMM_386 on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @12:21PM (#35630078)

> It depends on "software services" hosted and coded by "other software companies" so his infra's SLA is basically outsourced to either Amazon, Microsoft or Oracle.

It also depends on an incredible amount of in-house custom code.

If I deploy a change that breaks our Angular front-end, or a C# API change that has a typo that routes calls to the wrong places, or a configuration file for our open-source software that handles the phone systems, how exactly do we tell our thousands of customers they can't run their call centers? Or our restaurant customers can't take orders because their phone systems are dead?

Let's not be ridiculous. I'm not humble-bragging. I'm telling you what I do at my job.

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Re:Meta is about to start its next round of layoffs by deadly_syn on Saturday April 22, 2023 @07:52AM (#35665628)

Arent most peoples at this point?

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