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> Very few people are needed to run the technology elements of these businesses This is currently false, or at least very up to debate.
by iot_devs 3y ago
> Very few people are needed to run the technology elements of these businesses
This is currently false, or at least very up to debate.
- rsanek 3y agoI think Twitter provides a case study here. The site is still working fine despite being staffed by only 20% of the employees it had just over a year ago.
- local_crmdgeon 3y agoTwitter and Amazon are not similar companies and cannot be compared in terms of scale. No one has Amazons scale.
- hermanradtke 3y ago> site is still working fine Twitter has had a lot of issues and generally failing as a company at the moment.
- ryandrake 3y agoYea, I think we still need to wait and see. Airplanes keep gliding when you turn the engine off. I think Twitter is still in the "Wile-E-Coyote ran off the cliff but hasn't started falling yet" phase.
- VirusNewbie 3y agoIt has had major outages and is losing a ton of money.
- wyclif 3y agoI take a middle position on this having seen it all at Twitter since 2006. The site does still work, but not without outages. Of course, Twitter had major outages during the Williams/Costello/Dorsey period as well. What happened was that when Musk obtained control, the haters claimed that Twitter/X would burn down or get bricked. None of that ever happened, which leads some people to believe it "still works fine" with 20% of the former staff.
- PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y agoyou'll have to define what "it still works fine" means then, because your description certainly would meet my definition of the phrase.
- minkiebun 3y agoKeeping the lights on is typically around 10% of effort at Amazon. But there’s value in the ongoing development, which is why it’s done.