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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…
It’s been down for an hour, I think.
This is the 3rd time I've seen a topic on this subject. Need to start merging IMO: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38717326 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38717367
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…
Yet somehow GitHub's outages are tolerated with something breaking over there every week.
I have not seen anything else break more times than GitHub even having Microsoft footing the bill and they should have a much higher uptime than Twitter / X which eliminates any excuses over such frequent outages.
But it turns out that GitHub's reliability is far worse than Twitter / X.
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. 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’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…
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