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I’m not surprised to see Twitter’s reliability get progressively worse.

Overall, I think they could have reduced engineering staff in the long term by adopting mainstream open source technologies instead of their own custom (albeit also oss) database/filesystem/streaming system/rpc library/spark stack.

But those migrations would have taken years. Instead, slashing staff that fast is likely to cause slow rot of their ad network, and overall system resiliency.

Re: X: All Tweets Disappeared

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I’m not surprised to see Twitter’s reliability get progressively worse. Overall, I think they could have reduced engineering staff in the long term by adopting mainstream open source technologies instead of their own custom (albeit also oss) database/filesystem/streaming system/rpc library/spark stack. But those migrations would have taken years. Instead, slashing staff that fast is likely to cause slow rot of their…

loss of APIs far worse than site being broken for a few hours. Twitter has always had outages and glitches long before Musk.

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I’m not surprised to see Twitter’s reliability get progressively worse. Overall, I think they could have reduced engineering staff in the long term by adopting mainstream open source technologies instead of their own custom (albeit also oss) database/filesystem/streaming system/rpc library/spark stack. But those migrations would have taken years. Instead, slashing staff that fast is likely to cause slow rot of their…

Is it getting worse? This is the first outage I remember in a while.

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I’m not surprised to see Twitter’s reliability get progressively worse. Overall, I think they could have reduced engineering staff in the long term by adopting mainstream open source technologies instead of their own custom (albeit also oss) database/filesystem/streaming system/rpc library/spark stack. But those migrations would have taken years. Instead, slashing staff that fast is likely to cause slow rot of their…

> I’m not surprised to see Twitter’s reliability get progressively worse.

Can you share the graph of Twitter reliability over years that you plotted to arrive at this conclusion? Thanks.

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I’m not surprised to see Twitter’s reliability get progressively worse. Overall, I think they could have reduced engineering staff in the long term by adopting mainstream open source technologies instead of their own custom (albeit also oss) database/filesystem/streaming system/rpc library/spark stack. But those migrations would have taken years. Instead, slashing staff that fast is likely to cause slow rot of their…

Is it getting worse? This is the first outage I remember in a while.

I don't know if it's getting worse, but it's not the first outage in a while. It's pretty common, but then again it always was.
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