KaydeArcane

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hey i'm Kayde! i also go by Kay or airhead! Kayde's the goat, Kay's the lil balloon critter, airhead works for either of em. i'm a 31 y/o tired queer furry weirdo. enjoyer of inflatables and all things squeaky, player of many many indie games, addicted to ttrpg character creation, and fervent lover of music
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jkap
@jkap

the slow operational bitrot of twitter remains absolutely fascinating to witness. i get the feeling some people will point to it as a case-study against microservices, when realistically it's a case-study against firing the overwhelming majority of your employees and leaving a skeleton crew struggling to keep a major social media platform online while forcing them to implement the dumbest possible features.

i strongly recommend against doing this.


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yeah it’s genuinely impressive. it’s a deeply complex series of systems and, given that, i expected this to fail more dramatically more quickly. things only really started exploding when he started making changes

I’m not really a microservice person per se but it definitely feels like this is the difference between all of Twitter being down 90% of the time vs being half broken but usable

yeah like i do not think microservices are the right choice for The Majority Of Companies but it did make sense for twitter and is absolutely making the difference rn

I keep thinking about the incident where Elon Musk randomly posted "it turns out we're running all these microservices and we don't even need them! i told them to shut them all down". The most likely explanation for that comment was that he was just lying or someone lied to him and no one shut anything down, but part of me wonders a little bit if they had a workable, resilient microservices architecture and Musk went "microservices are bad! everything new should be not-microservices!" and now everything's 5% of the way into a total-stack rewrite which is increasing brittleness.

I am not really qualified to evaluate the appropriateness of microservices but my assumption is that a microservices architecture can work well and a monolithic architecture could take well but a thoughtless random jumble of some-monolith-some-microservices created without an intentional plan could get kinda bad.

Yeah, there was an incident a couple months ago where Elon showed up on a twitter space to talk about how the site needed a total rewrite and no one could get any actual meaningful technical details out of him. Like with everything it's clear he had no idea what he was talking about but was sure he was making the right technical decisions anyway.

it's definitely a lot more interesting to watch this kind of thing in action when it's happening to a website that was already pretty bad to look at for unrelated reasons than when it's happening to, like, your town's power grid

Absolutely. A few weeks ago, analysts were saying things like, "see? Developers and maintenance people don't really do anything useful, so people are going to look at Twitter and fire everyone in favor of a pre-schooler with an iPad, and it'll be fine." Now that it's not fine, it has to be a technical problem, and not deliberately sabotaging the platform. If it was a labor problem, that would mean that the last forty years of management science was wrong...

not management science, but practice. there is ton of research about management, but it is confined to scientific papers, rarely used by practitioners.