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by Comevius 1307 days ago
Take into account that between the two of them Eric is the expert.

It was Musk who failed to keep things professional. His first post was literally humiliating his own employees for writing bad code. It's his own company, he may not have been around, but it's his people now. Even if Twitter's Android client is not the best, playing the blame game is callous and petty. There is no point to trying to show that you are better than your employees either. It's the opposite of what a functional CEO should do.
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joegahona 1307 days ago
It was callous and petty, and I can't imagine how frayed the nerves are of current employees. Almost every higher-up I've seen come into a company has done this to some degree, and it's always annoying, but to do it actually on the product to 100mm+ followers is a new level of cruel and spiteful.
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memish 1307 days ago
"I was told ~1200 RPCs independently by several engineers at Twitter, which matches # of microservices. The ex-employee is wrong.

Same app in US takes ~2 secs to refresh (too long), but ~20 secs in India, due to bad batching/verbose comms. Actually useful data transferred is low."

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1592176202873085952

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Comevius 1307 days ago
There is no way to tell if this is right or wrong, we are not engineers at Twitter, and I suspect that no engineer there would dare to correct him. I'm pretty sure Twitter has an API gateway of some sort, it doesn't make sense that it's a batching issue.

But it doesn't matter who is right or wrong. The unprofessional atmosphere, the callousness, the one-upmanship is the problem. He is the CEO for God's sake. This is a PR nightmare. I know that it worked for Trump, but it isn't working even for him anymore.

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memish 1307 days ago
He didn't come up with that number. Twitter engineers told him that number.
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Comevius 1307 days ago
It's hard to tell if that's the case.

I honestly don't understand what remote procedure calls have to do with the client. Surely the clients wouldn't interact in such a way with the microservices, there would be some sort of API gateway, maybe even one for each platform or service, like the backend for frontend pattern.

It's probably more complicated than this, and you can't exactly put it into a few words, but he tried, and it didn't make sense, but he still managed to call his employees idiots.

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6510 1307 days ago
I would be tempted to throw things at the devs just to see what their response is like.
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