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Re:How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engi... by Sparkyte on Saturday September 16, 2023 @03:48AM (#37532839)
Back when he acquired twitter he fire 2/3rds the company.
Re:How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engi... by falcor84 on Saturday September 16, 2023 @03:53AM (#37532863)
I think the interesting "what happened" is about the consequences - has there been some objective drop in uptime/performance/errors or some other technical metric?
Re:How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engi... by Sparkyte on Saturday September 16, 2023 @03:59AM (#37532897)
Yes actually.

And one massive security breach.

Re:How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engi... by andrewinardeer on Saturday September 16, 2023 @04:10AM (#37532945)
Even before he acquired the company they had security issues. Someone even managed to tweet from his account with a BTC scam.
Re:How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engi... by leereeves on Saturday September 16, 2023 @04:09AM (#37532937)
Could you be more specific?
Re:How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engi... by Sparkyte on Saturday September 16, 2023 @03:56AM (#37532881)
@falcor84

We hit maximum reply lengths but yes there has been. And a massive security breach.

Re:How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engi... by wfme on Saturday September 16, 2023 @04:02AM (#37532908)
Which security breach are you referring to? I'm not aware of any major ones that have happened since the acquisition, but this one seems to be the one people point to even though it happened prior. https://privacy.twitter.com/en/blog/2023/update-about-an-all...
Re:How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engi... by drno123 on Saturday September 16, 2023 @03:56AM (#37532875)
No, what is the consequence, how has quality of Twitter diminished? As a “normal” user I can not observe any degradation of Twitter service.
Re:How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engi... by Sparkyte on Saturday September 16, 2023 @04:02AM (#37532906)
Sure, but I feel like this was because of feature creep more than anything else.

Most common thing people use it for is posting and reading. If you fake feeds as if they are real-time then the viewer will never know there was a system outage.

I am almost positive there was a massive security breach too.

Re:How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engi... by blackoil on Saturday September 16, 2023 @04:41AM (#37533074)
> I am almost positive there was a massive security breach too.

That's a very serious allegation, as it would be illegal to not report it. Can you add some details?

Re:How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engi... by thebears5454 on Saturday September 16, 2023 @04:44AM (#37533088)
Very famously he had Ron DeSantos on to announce his presidential campaign, but his website didn't work at all.
Re:How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engi... by 3np on Saturday September 16, 2023 @09:47AM (#37534724)
Experiences vary wildly between and IP addresses and browser profiles. The variance increased drastically post-takeover.
Re:How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engi... by weird-eye-issue on Saturday September 16, 2023 @01:08PM (#37536584)
This response is about what I expected