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“I would expect to start seeing significant public-facing problems with the technology within six months,” he says. “And I feel like that’s a generous estimate.
by popularrecluse 4y ago
“I would expect to start seeing significant public-facing problems with the technology within six months,” he says. “And I feel like that’s a generous estimate.”
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/08/1062886/heres-how-a-twitter-engineer-says-it-will-break-in-the-coming-weeks/ https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/08/1062886/heres-ho...
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- Aperocky 4y agoA certain percentage of engineers have to keep the lights on. It's usually around 10%-40%, depending on staffing levels and engineering quality. But there's one more gotcha, a company can't just keep 10% - 40% and expect the service to still run, because it's rotating and oncalls can always reach out to other people on the team. Twitter not only fired indiscriminately, with perverse pattern (more capable to find another job leave first), and didn't even keep the minimum to keep the lights on. From a software engineering perspective, it's doomed to fail, maybe it can retract to a smaller footprint (abandoning features/stacks) and still work, but that would also be pretty hard. That, and I don't think anyone not desperate will apply for a job there in the foreseeable future.