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wow. how would one even fix this without deliberate downtime? you'd have to deploy and hope that the frontend will make it through CDNs to reduce pressure, right?
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Do you know how many current Twitter engineers are on H1B? Is this based on some data, or just speculation?
Around 300. https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7z5px/twitter-employees-on-...
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Twitter operates its own datacenters.
"Twitter and AWS signed a five-and-a-half-year contract in 2020, which AWS is not willing to renegotiate." https://gritdaily.com/twitter-owes-aws-millions/
One weekend Russia attacks Russia, next weekend Twitter attacks Twitter.
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It withstands being one of the first link on HN, and it still loads comfortably. For a personal website, that's a great performance.
HN traffic is not nearly the DDOS people make it out to be. I made it to spot #2 once and that was a few dozen hits per second at most. Maybe not something to serve with wordpress from a raspberry pi, but hardly apocalyptic levels of traffic.
This is interesting. Judging from the screenshot, a huge amount of GET /TweetDetail is generated which triggers some rate limiting, as shown by the 429. If this is indeed due to the recent decision to enforce authentication for all API calls, it means the curlprit may actually be the API gateway or something similar downstream. Also, this behavior seem to never stop, which isn't what one would expect from an exponent…
Meanwhile, I can see this very Mastadon post with no login just fine. And the interface is not trying to assault me. It loads quick. ...Seems like a better product than Twitter for a public feed.
I prefer Twitter in the sense that it's more laissez faire in terms of what kinds of speech get you banned.