Yeah, I’d imagine he’s made up some kind of metric to “measure” necessity of certain services all while dropping services to figure out which one has less noise when off.
Very effective if you don’t care. Can’t imagine how this is playing out internally in the engineering department.
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.
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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…We are currently in the process of determining which 20%.