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If 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 p
by slily 3y ago
If 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.