Twitter had the fail whale for years. Same with reddit. Facebook moved fast and broke things. What engineers often don't understand is that engineering is not i

Twitter had the fail whale for years. Same with reddit. Facebook moved fast and broke things. What engineers often don't understand is that engineering is not important to the business, only the preceptor of it is. Even these huge companies are only backfilling engineering on their core critical components, while new experimental projects are sloppy messes. The only reason half the stuff is solid is that it gets to free ride on comping built for the critical core.