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I disagree with your "incompetent" assessment of Twitter. First, there's a lot of false info out there about what parts of Twitter were built using which techn
by encoderer 16y ago
I disagree with your "incompetent" assessment of Twitter.
First, there's a lot of false info out there about what parts of Twitter were built using which technologies and why it had uptime issues.
Second, their issue was massive scalability. A high-class problem.
- jarek 16y ago> Second, their issue was massive scalability. A high-class problem. That a lot of other companies nevertheless solved far more successfully.
- shalmanese 16y agoI've talked to people who currently work at twitter who are pretty open that a large part of their job is paying down the technical debt from the early days. The engineers who were at twitter in the early days were by no means bad but it's pretty open within the company that they weren't "world class"