Re:Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads [pdf]
by simmschi on Friday July 07, 2023 @12:33PM
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At a certain scale you start to break many things that you're used to abstract away into a neat little box. This can be anything, from kernel, libraries, network stacks to anything running in the cloud.
"Serverless" is not really an option at a certain scale. It's likely too expensive, but especially a giant risk if you abstract away something that can fail in an interesting way.
I remember we once managed to break the AWS ELB in one AZ and had a nice little call with a dev from Seattle. Another time we managed to saturate EC2 in a zone at a certain time.
You will need people who can dig into this. If you're at Twitter scale you'll probably want whole teams digging into aspects that you take for granted.
"Serverless" is not really an option at a certain scale. It's likely too expensive, but especially a giant risk if you abstract away something that can fail in an interesting way.
I remember we once managed to break the AWS ELB in one AZ and had a nice little call with a dev from Seattle. Another time we managed to saturate EC2 in a zone at a certain time.
You will need people who can dig into this. If you're at Twitter scale you'll probably want whole teams digging into aspects that you take for granted.