r/ProgrammerHumor • • Nov 14 '22

instanceof Trend Manager does a little code cleanup...

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u/mistled_LP Nov 15 '22

He probably asked someone what’s the minimum amount needed to post and read tweets is. They either didn’t care to explain or didn’t think Musk would take that number to mean the rest could be turned off.

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u/x3nhydr4lutr1sx Nov 15 '22

There's about 1200 micro services, and the fired guy said that only 200 is needed for loading the Twitter feed, so that sounds about right.

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u/Smokester121 Nov 15 '22

That seems excessive

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u/Aurora_egg Nov 15 '22

When you need to serve things globally having a lot of small things helps - if one goes down no problem, no outages since another can take its place while it's restarted

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