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

@mjg59 i would easily make my software resilient to this, using a little known tool i like to call ‘rm’