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Not to defend Musk but, as a matter of fact, he has written his fair share of code so he probably knows what he's talking about in this case. I just refreshed

Not to defend Musk but, as a matter of fact, he has written his fair share of code so he probably knows what he's talking about in this case. I just refreshed twitter's home page and for me it made 111 http requests (per Chrome's dev tools). That includes static resources like images and style sheets. So only ~10% are made from the browser and the other 90% must be due to microservice architecture on the backend, I suppose?

paulryanrogers 4y ago
Where can I read more about Musk's coding prowess? Because the little I've gleaned is that he insisted on porting PayPal to Microsoft stack, got pushed out, and picked up enough about rocketry to impress Carmack in casual conversation.
- karp773 4y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip2 "Elon Musk was appointed the Chief Technology Officer..." He created a web based company as early as 1995. In a three person startup one cannot become a CTO without writing code. So my bet is he understands something about http vs local calls.
  - dekhn 4y ago
    That's your whole evidence? He was a CTO at a startup which means he knows how to code.
    - kuberlog 4y ago
      No, he was CTO of a 3 person startup. He was the ONLY one that knew how to code for a while. He did it pretty obsessively and slept next to his computer.