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If every twitter employee collapsed and died right now how long would twitter actually still work for?

• nerpderp82 4y ago
  This isn't twitter specific, but from what I have seen, things can fail for the following reasons. Something that autoupgrades would become out of spec, refuse to start due to a change in config files. A counter would roll over somewhere. A disk fills up. A cert expires. A domain name entry expires. Could be days/weeks/months.
• grahamlee 4y ago
  My guess is not very long. I've been on a project with three people where if we all quit, it would run until AWS EKS switched off the version of Kubernetes we were using; I'd expect from experience at FB that there's way more done to keep plates spinning on the Twitter fleet and within a couple of days there would be a SEV that no-one was around to respond to. Of course they'd actually be pulled down by law enforcement much quicker than that if all their content mods left.
  • yread 4y ago
    SEV as in "severe"?
    • gen3 4y ago
      SEV as in sev-1,sev-2,etc incident. Ie something would go down and people would normally be called in to fix it.
    • grahamlee 4y ago
      Actually short for “Site EVent”, but yeah a screwup.