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The author claimed early on, and very clearly that this was a fun exercise of thought and engineering rather than saying “Look this is how Twitter should be ru
by reacharavindh 4y ago
The author claimed early on, and very clearly that this was a fun exercise of thought and engineering rather than saying “Look this is how Twitter should be run”. After all this is Hacker News. Such exercises, and engaging other hackers to pick something out of there is how we progress(and get our tickles). So, may be instead think about how one could tackle the advertising/indexing needs in a similar fashion(could it be done in just another server? 5 more servers?)..
- SilverBirch 4y agoYeah I completely get that, but I think a lot of hacker news tends to think of companies as the sum of their engineering resources, rather than what they really are. Which is weird, because it's hosted by YC which is meant to be the polar opposite of that. The point of my comment was that the decision making that lead to Twitter's design actually make sense when you understand the business model behind them. It's not good enough to just run a webpage.