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You don't need reliability engineers until you NEED reliability engineers.
by frob 3y ago
You don't need reliability engineers until you NEED reliability engineers.
- tootie 3y ago"Why am I paying so much for a guy to look at a forest that isn't on fire?"
- Nextgrid 3y agoOn the other hand, this is a 100% self-inflicted problem. There is no technical reason why links have to be shortened (for SMS users back in the day, the shortening should've happened at the SMS gateway level, with actual Twitter content always using the real links). You don't need (as many) reliability engineers if you don't add unnecessary moving parts into the system in the first place.
- housemusicfan 3y agoExcept for filtering malicious links of course.
- slily 3y agoIf there was some disingenuous ragebait article every time someone broke something in production at my company we'd be in the news every week. And that's with plenty of reliability engineers and QA.
- frob 3y agoI don't know who you work for, but something tells me your boss didn't publicly fire a huge chunk of the engineering staff being like, "WTF are all these people good for? lol"
- 93po 3y agoDaily active users are at all time highs and Twitter before Elon was heading into bankruptcy. Tell us what your plan would have been
- bdcravens 3y agoRemember Elon was strong-armed into the purchase; he tried to back out. That aside, in his shoes I would have slashed non-essential roles, but been a bit less heavy-handed among the engineers. I do feel that Twitter's popularity is orthogonal to the cost-cutting.
- penjelly 3y agothere are still TONS of bots, despite what musk says
- slily 3y agoThat's the point. We have reliability engineers and QA, but I don't find that they actually prevent or resolve outages. I guess it's funny to poke fun at every outage after the mass layoffs, but in reality I doubt things would have been much better had that not happened.