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The claim that Twitter would collapse immediately never made any sense. Most engineers tend to design software so that they can take holidays. There might be a
by rhaway84773 4y ago
The claim that Twitter would collapse immediately never made any sense. Most engineers tend to design software so that they can take holidays. There might be a handful of Ops people who may be need to be available 24/7 but even in a website the size of Twitter those probably number fewer than a few dozen.
- nebula8804 4y agoWere there prominent engineers making this claim or just the mainstream media that doesn't understand systems engineering?
- Aperocky 4y agomainstream media generally understand nothing outside of media, and is especially ignorant about science and technology.
- coredog64 4y agoPeople who claimed to be senior SREs wrote long Twitter threads about how it was going to look like a post-nuclear wasteland within a week of the purchase.