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> technical interviews that allow me to better understand the Twitter tech stack And the stack is basically a very fancy CRUD app. That's all Twitter is. The o
by spansoa 4y ago
> technical interviews that allow me to better understand the Twitter tech stack
And the stack is basically a very fancy CRUD app. That's all Twitter is. The only reason it's still operating is because of the premise: Create, Read, Update, Delete. NO magic sauce.
- DabbyDabberson 4y ago90% of their revenue comes from their massive and complicated ads platform, not the basic web app you deal with.
- jstx1 4y agoHave you ever done CRUD for hundreds of millions of users distributed globally accessing your service 24/7? It's much more complicated than updating a database. Then you have ranking algorithms, search, ad serving, moderation...