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I haven't seen that particular stack and build setup to dispute or support that claim. Have you? What I have seen in my part of the developer world, is very br
by retSava 2y ago
I haven't seen that particular stack and build setup to dispute or support that claim. Have you?
What I have seen in my part of the developer world, is very brittle stacks/setups where minor changes have butterfly effects on completely unrelated parts. Pushing straight to important branches, build depending on several pretty unrelated repos, unclear and messy dependencies, etc etc. I can totally understand such a claim.
- hypeatei 2y agoI don't remember Twitter being known for downtime before he bought it and the claim it needed a complete rewrite indicates a lack of experience in software development. Rewriting everything rarely ends up in better software than you had before.
- sandytoast 2y agoGoogle ‘fail whale’
- sschueller 2y agoI wonder if Twitter is still running on Ruby on Rails. Those were the days...
- galactus 2y agoThe “fail whale” was a thing years before Elon’s acquisition.
- ttepasse 2y agoThe fail whale was a thing in the late 2000s, when Twitter was famously still on Ruby on Rails. After the early 2010s rewrite in Scala (?) it was pretty much stable.
- TheNewsIsHere 2y agoI used to be friends with a group of developers at Twitter after their rewrite. They had no complaints about “brittleness” or stability generally. We do know Elon isn’t anywhere near as smart as he likes to project in areas of modern computing, so I tend to not believe his claims. This was the man who publicly called a senior developer at Twitter an idiot for saying something about the government using SQL.