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Is anybody else highly skeptical that 80% of Twitters services do nothing? Even trivial services do something and tracking down all of the dependencies seems ve
by sosodev 4y ago
Is anybody else highly skeptical that 80% of Twitters services do nothing? Even trivial services do something and tracking down all of the dependencies seems very hard
- TheLoafOfBread 4y agoEveryone who was working on any commercial codebase knows that this functionality are either features which nobody knows they are there, but when they disappear all the hell will break loose, because there is non-trivial amount of people using them and other thing on seemingly "dead code" is covering of edge cases for bugs which developer is unable to trigger, but end user will trigger them with 100% success rate.
- torben-friis 4y agoI’m assuming they have some sort of tiered architecture with graceful degradation functionality, he’s heard somewhere that “the system can provide basic service with as little as X important services running”, and has decided to shut down the rest.