Matthew GarrettI feel like Elon stans asserting that Twitter will be just fine with no meaningful engineering left are not going to respond well to "Facts don't care about your feelings" as it all gradually falls apart
What's obvious to basically everyone in the industry but is probably surprising to everyone else is that twitter is a harder problem than getting a rocket to the moon. One of these problems only involves physics, the other involves humans.
What's depressing is that this will inevitably turn into criticism of Twitter's dev team for not building software that was resilient against the entire SRE team quitting, as if maybe if they'd just been more competent all the scaling and maintenance issues would just go away
Saying Twitter should work fine without SREs and if it doesn't the devs were incompetent is like saying Apollo 13 should have been fine without ground control because Rockwell should have designed the oxygen tanks better
Wonky@mjg59 I have seen this attitude time and time again during cost cutting.
"We don't need this ops team, its too expensive"
"Why do we need dev and staging environments when we can just apply changes to prod"
Zero percent chance of ending well, even with a mature platform.
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TrismegistusMx@mjg59 @TrismegistusMx this is a great analogy.
Inevitably what is going to happen is that there will be failures that require tribal knowledge to fix. There will be failed releases that also fall rollback. There will be core infrastructure and dependent service incompatibilities as the configuration drift expands.