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

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.

Nov 18, 2022 at 5:54pmWeb