I have a theory. Technology markets are very interest rate sensitive, and there is a definite trend towards more complex, larger-team centric specialization du

I have a theory. Technology markets are very interest rate sensitive, and there is a definite trend towards more complex, larger-team centric specialization during bull run periods as organizations pile on the people and resources and teams specialize as they scale. At the end of these periods is often a “clearing out” and “simplifying down” as teams downsize and need more efficiency and integration in their frameworks. I would say that Elon gutting all the services in Twitter is not unprecedented. In fact it’s not that uncommon after and M&A for the previous management teams initiatives and technology platforms to be gutted. Do not conflate Elon’s management style of needing to know the details on everything and throwing out oceans of services with the simplification trends that always come at the end of bull markets or the throwing out of the predecessors bull market bloated technology stacks. Pretty standard stuff honestly — getting rid of old services and whatnot, it’s just being done very dramatically and in public. I also suspect that many microservices shops can do without large parts of their technology stacks, as managing microservices is hard in large organizations and tends to have a lot of sprawl. You have to go in and clean house occasionally, and I imagine that’s also a factor. Anyone who work(ed) at Twitter have perspective? I’m doing my best to steer away from commentary on what’s going on because it’s not HN appropriate. I’ll just say my heart goes out to folks through all this.