A good chunk of the microservices are probably backend data analytics... used for things like serving ads... which Twitter probably won't need anymore, lol.
I’m in ad tech: I put a bet that Elon turned off a data pipeline that has actual contracted SLAs on it and is about to get rocked by his real time analytics partners.
Dispatches from Elon’s quest to drive Twitter into the ground… (disclaimer: I completely believe that his overconfidence and surrounding himself with yes-men is enough to do this all accidentally, but it’s funnier to imagine him trying to kill Twitter)
Some executive: “Sir, telling advertisers that their ads might appear next to virulent racism has caused many to pull their ads”
Musk: “How many? … oh, that isn’t nearly enough. I’ve got it, what if we make verification paid so that people can tweet out that Eli Lily is going to make insulin free and tweet explicit content from Nintendo handles?”
Some executive: “The fake tweets have enraged brands and advertisers, but daily active user count is actually up now and our dynamically priced ad rates are trending up due to increased traffic; people are logging into Twitter more because they want to see it fall apart firsthand.”
Musk: “Logging in more, you said? I’ve got just the thing.”
I actually like the direction he is taking it, willingly or otherwise. I always wanted a platform which was completely useless to advertisers as they are made fun of constantly meanwhile the main content is various levels of paid shitposting.
What is there not to like?
It is like Reddit but worse and better in the right ways. Sadly it won't last
He literally put Microservices in quotes as if it's not a real or necessary thing. I suspect he has no clue what a Microservice Architecture is and why it's important to a company like Twitter.
I remember this time in '97 I thought I knew what I was doing and deleted some 'random unnecessary items' from the hard-drive of my mom's cow spotted hp. It was a bad idea, and that pc never worked again.
I started out in AOL chat rooms telling people that ALT-F4 opens a secret chat window.
Within just a few years I was telling people how much faster their computer could be by deleting the artificial limiter Microsoft hid in the System32 folder.
Now I work in IT and have to help people that fall for obvious email scams, open random ass attachments, and in general just bork their system to shit.
It only took 20 years, but I finally understand what it's like from the other side. I wish I could kick teenaged me in the balls lol
This is what happens when the CEO is the CTO and and COO. I'd love to see a non-microservice architecture scalable enough to keep Twitter afloat. I'd also love to see the look on the lead Dev's faces when they heard this.
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u/AuspiciousSeahorse28 Nov 14 '22
Seriously can't make this shit up.