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Resilient systems are rarely 100% efficient. Duplication of key infrastructure and roles maximizes uptime. While I'd bet LinkedIn suffers from large-scale organ
by waterheater 3y ago
Resilient systems are rarely 100% efficient. Duplication of key infrastructure and roles maximizes uptime. While I'd bet LinkedIn suffers from large-scale organizational inefficiencies, each team probably is working to maximize resiliency.
Sometimes inefficiency can help retain talent. Sometime in the 1950s, Thomas Watson Jr., the second president of IBM, wanted to retain a bunch of employees at the Poughkeepsie location (which is still an important location for IBM to this day), but IBM didn't have enough work at the time to justify keeping them. According to the story, Watson told these employees to redo the flooring in a massive Poughkeepsie building (Building 012, to be precise) and to take their time. The tactic worked; the flooring was redone (think school gym flooring), and work eventually picked up again for those employees. I heard this story from long-time employees at the IBM Poughkeepsie location.