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"Our app has performance issues even though we fired all the engineers who could fix it" is definitely a leadership take. EDIT: > As the former tech lead for
by minimaxir 4y ago
"Our app has performance issues even though we fired all the engineers who could fix it" is definitely a leadership take.
EDIT:
> As the former tech lead for timelines infrastructure at Twitter, I can confidently say this man has no idea wtf he's talking about
https://twitter.com/bgleib/status/1591875679377031169 https://twitter.com/bgleib/status/1591875679377031169
- willcipriano 4y agoIf they were the engineers that could fix it, why haven't they?
- csande17 4y agoI suspect most of Twitter's performance issues are of the too-many-cooks variety, where services are poorly coupled or have a lot of dependencies because a million different teams are working on each one. (Heavy layoffs are a good step towards fixing that, along with a technical redesign.)