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Re: Parler CEO says he was fired by board

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Post by grensley »

koolba wrote: post #15

Was he the CTO as well? That’s who should really be fired (unless Matze hired the CTO in which case sack them both).

Could you imagine being the CTO of this company, kind of cruising along in the modern integration focused environment? You need an email provider (looks like they used SendGrid) a 2FA provider (Twilio), hosting (AWS), apps (Apple, Google), internal chat (Slack), etc.

Now imagine all of those services say "nah, you're done". All of the sudden you need to roll your own everything. You have millions of users and no access to fractional development of load balancing, crafting emails to avoid spam filter, best practices in 2FA, well organized chat permission systems. It's the true nightmare scenario for a modern company.

If you say "they should have anticipated being de-platformed", well they probably never would have made it as far if they had focused on that.

Re: Parler CEO says he was fired by board

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Post by redwood »

rektide wrote: post #3
jimmydorry wrote: post #2

Not surprising, when your first and foremost duty as the headhoncho should be doing what you can to keep your site online. It's been almost a month that the site has been down for now. Yes, an outage should be expected when you get deplatformed at a network level... however they could not put up anything more than a status page in this time.

Rebekah Mercer is done being embarrassed by you! (Reminder: she's the board that fired him.)

Do you realize who she is? If she's embarrassed by anything it's that he hasn't brought the site back to glory yet

Re: Parler CEO says he was fired by board

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Post by airstrike »

Qub3d wrote: post #32
jimmydorry wrote: post #2

Not surprising, when your first and foremost duty as the headhoncho should be doing what you can to keep your site online. It's been almost a month that the site has been down for now. Yes, an outage should be expected when you get deplatformed at a network level... however they could not put up anything more than a status page in this time.

Oh, don't worry, they also managed to get the nginx default page up on their api domain: https://api.speak-free.com/ Really great technical work all around.

Good Lord.. I'm just a hobbyist and even I can do better than that

Re: Parler CEO says he was fired by board

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Post by echelon »

rodgerd wrote: post #14
aahortwwy wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can think of plenty of SV darlings that would take far longer than a month to recover from such an event. That said, given the content Parler was hosting they really should've planned for something like this, so it makes sense to terminate the CEO.

Given that he initially represented that they had no real hard dependencies on AWS, I assume that the Mercers quickly lost patience when it became clear that they were locked into AWS, with no contingency.

This is why you should build for bare metal.

It's fine to use k8s and containers, but don't lock yourself into Lambda, SQS, etc.

You should be able to spin up anywhere.

Re: Parler CEO says he was fired by board

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Post by pocw »

aahortwwy wrote: post #6
jimmydorry wrote: post #2

Not surprising, when your first and foremost duty as the headhoncho should be doing what you can to keep your site online. It's been almost a month that the site has been down for now. Yes, an outage should be expected when you get deplatformed at a network level... however they could not put up anything more than a status page in this time.

I can think of plenty of SV darlings that would take far longer than a month to recover from such an event. That said, given the content Parler was hosting they really should've planned for something like this, so it makes sense to terminate the CEO.

They had months of warning from AWS too. "Hey guys, content calling for violence is violation of our TOS, you should make a plan to keep that off your platform", yeah yeah whatever man.

Re: Parler CEO says he was fired by board

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Post by pocw »

klodolph wrote: post #23
aahortwwy wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can think of plenty of SV darlings that would take far longer than a month to recover from such an event. That said, given the content Parler was hosting they really should've planned for something like this, so it makes sense to terminate the CEO.

They had a backup plan for getting kicked off AWS, supposedly, but the backup plan terminated their relationship with Parler before AWS did. I can imagine Parler also might have some problems attracting the kind of talent needed to run a site like that.

Huh, it's almost like no provider in America is cool with your platform being used to plan an insurrection. Or open calls for violence against and murder of elected officials.

Re: Parler CEO says he was fired by board

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Post by cwyers »

echelon wrote: post #44
rodgerd wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Given that he initially represented that they had no real hard dependencies on AWS, I assume that the Mercers quickly lost patience when it became clear that they were locked into AWS, with no contingency.

This is why you should build for bare metal. It's fine to use k8s and containers, but don't lock yourself into Lambda, SQS, etc. You should be able to spin up anywhere.

If Parler did that, how does that affect their time to market? Their ability to scale with growth? Maybe if they did that, they would still be operating, because they would have never hit critical mass to the point where anyone cared about Parler.

Re: Parler CEO says he was fired by board

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Post by pocw »

babelfish wrote: post #29
aahortwwy wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can think of plenty of SV darlings that would take far longer than a month to recover from such an event. That said, given the content Parler was hosting they really should've planned for something like this, so it makes sense to terminate the CEO.

Most Silicon Valley darlings run disaster recovery exercises simulating setting up a datacenter from scratch in less than 24 hours (not that Parler should be compared to any of these companies, clearly)

Yeah but that usually means switching from AWS to GCP not, build a data center from scratch oh and by the way nobody from electricians to truckers will work with you because your platform was used to plan a violent attack on America.

Re: Parler CEO says he was fired by board

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Post by dunce2021 »

pocw wrote: post #46
klodolph wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They had a backup plan for getting kicked off AWS, supposedly, but the backup plan terminated their relationship with Parler before AWS did. I can imagine Parler also might have some problems attracting the kind of talent needed to run a site like that.

Huh, it's almost like no provider in America is cool with your platform being used to plan an insurrection. Or open calls for violence against and murder of elected officials.

And yet Facebook is still standing.

Re: Parler CEO says he was fired by board

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Post by jamesponddotco »

klodolph wrote: post #23
aahortwwy wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can think of plenty of SV darlings that would take far longer than a month to recover from such an event. That said, given the content Parler was hosting they really should've planned for something like this, so it makes sense to terminate the CEO.

They had a backup plan for getting kicked off AWS, supposedly, but the backup plan terminated their relationship with Parler before AWS did. I can imagine Parler also might have some problems attracting the kind of talent needed to run a site like that.

> They had a backup plan for getting kicked off AWS, supposedly.

As the saying goes, "one backup is zero backups."

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