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I worked there. Services running on GCP are a significant part of the internal service infra (ml platform, etc.) and it's not impossible that the abrupt loss of
by williamsmj 3y ago
I worked there. Services running on GCP are a significant part of the internal service infra (ml platform, etc.) and it's not impossible that the abrupt loss of GCP would cause user-facing problems. The GCP spend was many, many times the AWS spend. Unless things changed since last November, AWS is not a meaningful part of the internal or user-facing infra.
With respect to DynamoDB specifically, Twitter has its own custom distributed key-value store: https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/a/2014/manhattan-our-real-time-multi-tenant-distributed-database-for-twitter-scale https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/a/2014/manhattan-... that twitter.com itself runs on.
- 18pfsmt 3y agoThanks for weighing in with some actual first-hand knowledge. It is appreciated. The latest on cloud hosting is from a week ago, and I'm guessing you don't have any more recent info than this: https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitter-resumes-paying-google-cloud-bloomberg-news-2023-06-21/ https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitter-resumes-paying-go...
- williamsmj 3y agoCorrect, no more recent (or less public) info than that. Like I say, losing GCP could cause problems users notice, but sounds like that’s not going to happen.