Andrew TurleyProps to Elon for dropping the new winning answer to the "how would you scale this distributed system?" interview question.
DMA@aturls how else to describe throwing indiscriminate 429s to users than "backpressure"?
@lazyreader yeah I knew somebody would call me on that, and you're right, but also I think I'd get kicked out of the interview if I said "fuck the business, just stop providing service."
@aturls I mean I'm just shitposting here, your joke was funnier anyway
@lazyreader I think we can agree that Elon is an unstoppable fountain of laughs.
It's like if at the end of that Sideshow Bob rake bit, they pulled back a little more to show that he was on his way to his job as CEO of the rake factory.
kelvSYC@aturls Scaling down is scaling, and it’s cheap. And people are so focused on the bottom line, giving a good product and user experience becomes secondary.