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Sarah Mei did an interesting thread [1] on one aspect. A few months back, they had an unexpected outage that turned out to be caused by hitting 2,147,483,648 no
by gregmac 6y ago
Sarah Mei did an interesting thread [1] on one aspect. A few months back, they had an unexpected outage that turned out to be caused by hitting 2,147,483,648 notifications. That number should look instantly familiar to most programmers.
[1] https://twitter.com/sarahmei/status/1348474269064339456 https://twitter.com/sarahmei/status/1348474269064339456
- oceanghost 6y agoThat is terrifying.
- stunt 6y agoInteresting points. But, unnecessary humiliation as well.
- wmil 6y agoShe's a little over the top. I seem to recall that Twitter was running on Rails & Postgres for years after it had a ton of VC money.