Decimation of Twitter Eng
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Decimation of Twitter Eng
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#2Given that all of this tech is already being used inside Twitter, I feel it is unethical to discuss any non-public info (like discussions with cloud vendors on cost etc.) in public. The engineers have been kicked out, the tech still belongs to Twitter. This is not "decimation" of the engineering, just of engineers' egos. Someone else will do the job, the show will go on.
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#3I trust the Tesla engineers who thoroughly review the code for a few hours more than this guy who worked at Twitter for years.
After spending time reading Elons first responders on Twitter, I have learned that in the hierarchy of human competence, rocket scientist or FSD engineer > engineer supporting a website. This means naturally they are better at everything even when they stoop to doing a lesser job and would quickly recognize the coding deficiencies at Twitter.
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#4Given that all of this tech is already being used inside Twitter, I feel it is unethical to discuss any non-public info (like discussions with cloud vendors on cost etc.) in public. The engineers have been kicked out, the tech still belongs to Twitter. This is not "decimation" of the engineering, just of engineers' egos. Someone else will do the job, the show will go on.
Saying that the cloud provider was “shocked” or didn’t believe how low costs were is not revealing anything proprietary.
Almost everything on the list that was specific to a technology or accomplishment had a public url attached to it.
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#5I trust the Tesla engineers who thoroughly review the code for a few hours more than this guy who worked at Twitter for years. After spending time reading Elons first responders on Twitter, I have learned that in the hierarchy of human competence, rocket scientist or FSD engineer > engineer supporting a website. This means naturally they are better at everything even when they stoop to doing a lesser job and would qu…
This is a joke post, right?
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#6It's very interesting that Dan discusses the issues of cloud latency vs on-prem with on-prem being faster; something that some on HN have pooh-poohed as not being something that mattered.
And that bandwidth costs they were paying suprised GCP , when it's been pointed out that bandwidth costs can be quite low vs the cloud providers. Granted Twitter is operating at a very large scale...
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#7I trust the Tesla engineers who thoroughly review the code for a few hours more than this guy who worked at Twitter for years. After spending time reading Elons first responders on Twitter, I have learned that in the hierarchy of human competence, rocket scientist or FSD engineer > engineer supporting a website. This means naturally they are better at everything even when they stoop to doing a lesser job and would qu…
This is a joke post, right?
As someone that has the FSD beta, I certainly hope so.
Re: Decimation of Twitter Eng
#8It's very interesting that Dan discusses the issues of cloud latency vs on-prem with on-prem being faster; something that some on HN have pooh-poohed as not being something that mattered. And that bandwidth costs they were paying suprised GCP , when it's been pointed out that bandwidth costs can be quite low vs the cloud providers. Granted Twitter is operating at a very large scale...
SLOs for most SaaS are really loose (if they exist at all). Almost the whole industry is leaving 10x-100x performance on the table because I guess very few people even notice.
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#9This post is more than ten days old. Twitter has only gotten better. Why can't people exercise some discipline while running their mouths? If only to embarrass themselves less.
Re: Decimation of Twitter Eng
#10Given that all of this tech is already being used inside Twitter, I feel it is unethical to discuss any non-public info (like discussions with cloud vendors on cost etc.) in public. The engineers have been kicked out, the tech still belongs to Twitter. This is not "decimation" of the engineering, just of engineers' egos. Someone else will do the job, the show will go on.
Many of the projects mentioned there are open source and have been known publicly for a while, and talks about them have been presented over the years in many conferences.