Jorge Caballero, MDTwitter's engineering team is just 3 hamsters in an overcoat at this point
There are roughly twice as many engineers working on Mastodon infrastructure as there are Twitter employees (across all functions)
10K servers— let's assume each server requires 0.25 full-time equivalent to maintain: that's 2,500 engineers.
According to this recent article, Twitter's headcount sits at ~1,300...and fewer than 550 are full-time engineers
Ben Aveling@DataDrivenMD
.25 fte/server feels too high. That’s over a day/week. I’d guess, happy to be corrected by someone with actual experience, that’s it’s only a few hours per week, possibly a lot less.
I’d expect (guessing) that it is managing users that would take the bulk of admins time.
.25 fte/server feels too high. That’s over a day/week. I’d guess, happy to be corrected by someone with actual experience, that’s it’s only a few hours per week, possibly a lot less.
I’d expect (guessing) that it is managing users that would take the bulk of admins time.
@DataDrivenMD your original claim is probably true, probably an underestimate, it’s just that most of those engineers won’t be full time.