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I 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 deve

I 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 ago
Google ‘fail whale’
- sschueller 2y ago
  I wonder if Twitter is still running on Ruby on Rails. Those were the days...
  - relaxing 2y ago
    In case this isn’t sarcasm: it isn’t. For those who don’t remember that era: https://www.theregister.com/2012/11/08/twitter_epic_traffic_saved_by_java/ https://www.theregister.com/2012/11/08/twitter_epic_traffic_...
  - kevinh456 2y ago
    Shopify does somehow to this day.
- galactus 2y ago
  The “fail whale” was a thing years before Elon’s acquisition.
- ttepasse 2y ago
  The 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.