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 threadMatthew GarrettNov 18, 2022
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
Show threadWonky

@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.

Nov 18, 2022 at 5:51pmWeb
Show thread🦄 I Make Robots 🦄Nov 20, 2022
@wonky @mjg59 I haaaaaaate working with teams that have no integ stage. Their jank level is invariably off the charts.
Show threadTrismegistusMxNov 20, 2022

@wonky @mjg59 remember when engineers told NASA that the o-rings were going to fail on the Challenger and the Bean counters said it was worth the risk?

Elon only listens to Bean counters.

Show threadWonkyNov 20, 2022
@mjg59 @TrismegistusMx this is a great analogy.