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It depends on how Twitter is architected. Most teams need about 10% of staff for skeleton maintenance. You can last a little bit with one staff to restart thin
by ebiester 4y ago
It depends on how Twitter is architected.
Most teams need about 10% of staff for skeleton maintenance. You can last a little bit with one staff to restart things as they go, but you'll have a quick degradation of service. If certain microservices fail, it may be the advertizing not working right or something failing with billing or moderation or some other internal tool, but a user might just notice that something is slightly wonky.
However, you won't be able to change much at that point. Changes become exceedingly difficult because of the maintenance overhead.
- sgc 4y agoTwitter must have to deal with a lot of hacking attempts. If they go into that mode, I could see them falling victim to semi-regular disruptions to service and higher profile account takeovers, that would push at least some users away from the service. I could see them failing in ways many companies in the same situation would not.