[skc]

I was pleasantly surprised in the beginning of Musks reign, because a few weeks into it the World Cup came and went and Twitter didn't even flinch.

But since then it's been quite the shit-show from a stability point of view. I'm not a heavy user so I don't really care, but it is interesting how the initial pessimistic predictions had a sort of lag before being borne out.

[rsynnott]

I don't think that's at all surprising. Companies can run with a skeleton crew... for a little bit (most web services get through major holidays on a handful of on-call employees, say). But that only works for so long.

[yifanl]

I think if you leave a product in a steady state, then you can keep a web service running for quite a while. The problem is when you want to add new features, which is a much higher risk activity.

[dekhn]

you could run twitter indefinitely with a crew (25-50) of competent SRE for basically ever as long as they didn't roll out new features. Nobody should take that fact and conclude that firing your employees en masse is a good idea.