Matthew GarrettNov 18, 2022
I 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
Show threadMatthew GarrettNov 18, 2022
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.
Show threadMatthew GarrettNov 18, 2022
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
Show threadgaytabase
@mjg59 if they were just a bit smarter they would have designed a system that could deal with the threat of being bought out by a moron
Nov 18, 2022 at 10:47amWeb
Show threadgaytabaseNov 18, 2022
@mjg59 i'm wondering if he'll decide the server bill is too big next and start limiting compute resources.
Show threadAlan BellNov 18, 2022
@dysfun @mjg59 there probably are compute time and performance benefits to be had if he rips out lots of user tracking stuff. That would work great as a strategy until he has to sell that data to corporate partners and he doesn't have it.
Show threadStephan GarlandNov 18, 2022

@dysfun @mjg59
"I found out we aren't using CPU limits on our pods! Now that they're all constrained, we can spin down a bunch of these nodes."

-Musk, probably.

Show threadHenry Andrews (he/they)Nov 20, 2022

@sgarland @dysfun @mjg59

Would those be Tide Pods? 🌀😜

Show threadLambdaDuckNov 20, 2022
@mjg59 @dysfun he’s already expressed plans to shut down one of the three data centers. who needs redundancy?
Show threadAnnNov 20, 2022

@LambdaDuck @mjg59 @dysfun

Of course he has 🤦‍♀️

Show threadAndrew TimmesNov 20, 2022
@dysfun @mjg59 he already has
Show threadAriadne Conill 🐰Nov 18, 2022

@dysfun @mjg59

i think back to 2007 when @blaine wanted Twttr to interoperate with StatusNet, and how he built Webfinger to help realize that goal.

Show thread64kbNov 18, 2022
@dysfun @mjg59 I don't see any privately owned company prioritising this.
OTOH, when I've worked in govt departments, it feels like the whole system is organised around this principle.
Show threadBen A L JemmettNov 18, 2022
@dysfun @mjg59 The problem with designing things to be rich-moron-proof is that the universe promptly builds a bigger and richer moron...