Twitter server costs around $1.5B/year

Post by jmoak3 » Sat, Dec 24, 2022, 3:18 PM UTC

Tanjreeve wrote: post #9

numair wrote: post #3

Oh man, where do we even begin. $1.5B would be a great number if it's true. The fact that the commenter compares that amount to the $300M they claim Netflix spends each year shows that they ... are ... a lot less intelligent than they probably think they are. Twitter: Billions of little updates that invalidate billions of cached data sets, every single day, that need to be analyzed and delivered very quickly. Netflix…

The whole twitter/Elon thing it's been very noticeable that a lot of the mindset divide was people who deal with software and the guts of distributed systems and performance Vs "AI researchers"/tech bloggers people who think once youve got your AI algorithm sorted in pandas or your "twitter hello world" UI you just lob it over the fence and it's done automatically.

Always remind them of their S.I.N.S. (Scale is not simple) haha

Post by Kye » Sat, Dec 24, 2022, 5:29 PM UTC

numair wrote: post #3

Oh man, where do we even begin. $1.5B would be a great number if it's true. The fact that the commenter compares that amount to the $300M they claim Netflix spends each year shows that they ... are ... a lot less intelligent than they probably think they are. Twitter: Billions of little updates that invalidate billions of cached data sets, every single day, that need to be analyzed and delivered very quickly. Netflix…

Netflix probably re-encodes for new devices (to avoid delays doing it on the fly) regularly like Google does for YouTube. That compute time might make up some of the difference despite the different needs.

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