Reminds me of some Twitter lore from 2012. I was just an intern.... This is back in the Rails days, before they switch to Scala. I heard that there was a fail

Reminds me of some Twitter lore from 2012. I was just an intern.... This is back in the Rails days, before they switch to Scala. I heard that there was a fail-whale no one could solve related to Twitter's identity service. IIRC, it was called "Gizmoduck." The engineer who built it had left. They brought him in for half a day of work to solve the P0. *Supposedly*, he got paid ~50K for that day of work. Simultaneously outrageous but also reasonable if you've seen the inside of big tech. The ROI is worth it. That is all. Disclaimer: don't know if it's true, but the story is cool.