4 ms·

Maybe building it right cost 5x, and you have a budget for 1x. Sometime money is not unlimited even at FAANG

• DoctorOW 4y ago
  To add on, people forget that Twitter was never really FAANG. It not only wasn't profitable but had no monetization plan for years. I'm sure it paid off for all the investors who got Elon's money but even as a Facebook competitor they don't have Facebook money.
  • ilyt 4y ago
    TWAANG wouldn't sound bad tho
  • orwin 4y ago
    It was profitable in 2019 and 2020, and could have been in 2022 (the first semester was huge, probably because of all the stuff happening all over the world).
• ilyt 4y ago
  We have 7 racks and 3 people working in ops and built Puppet setup "right". It's not hard. And their setup was probably right too. Just that nobody plans for "bus hit our entire ops team"
  • jojobas 4y ago
    More commonly you don't plan for it, you make sure the entire ops team are never on the same bus, same plane, preferably not even in the same city.
    • hef19898 4y ago
      All fine and good. Until the new owner just fires everyone over night anyway. At which point, I guess, it is not the previous ops team's problem anymore.
    • VoidWhisperer 4y ago
      Unfortunately even those precautions wouldn't save you from the 'holy shit basicially the entire ops team got fired out of nowhere' scenario..
      • rsynnott 4y ago
        _Nothing_ can save a company from sufficiently incompetent future management, ultimately.