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One of the most shameful moments of my career happened on the Saturday night before WWDC in 2010. I'd never worked on a system with more than one component or m

One of the most shameful moments of my career happened on the Saturday night before WWDC in 2010. I'd never worked on a system with more than one component or more than 20,000 lines of code. Drunk, I managed to stumble from Jeff's hot-tub to his roof and told him that Twitter's scaling problems were "stupid" and that "there were no good reasons why Twitter should go down". I've apologized to him before, but after having worked on Minefold for the last 2 years, I feel like I need to apologize again. The work that Jeff and the others at Twitter have done has been amazing. I was also a massive cock.

mhuffman 14y ago
Until you experience the unrelenting hunger for your data by the gnawing mouths of the multitudes, it is hard to understand what a big job it is to hold them back. I have almost had panic attacks from (comparatively) much smaller user-bases than that. Also, that was perhaps the biggest apologetic act I have ever witnessed...good job.
jmhodges 14y ago
This really did happen. And we're totally cool. I refer to that as the Night of a Thousand Australians. Good times.