[rsanek]

I think Twitter provides a case study here. The site is still working fine despite being staffed by only 20% of the employees it had just over a year ago.

[local_crmdgeon]

Twitter and Amazon are not similar companies and cannot be compared in terms of scale.

No one has Amazons scale.

[hermanradtke]

> site is still working fine

Twitter has had a lot of issues and generally failing as a company at the moment.

[ryandrake]

Yea, I think we still need to wait and see. Airplanes keep gliding when you turn the engine off. I think Twitter is still in the "Wile-E-Coyote ran off the cliff but hasn't started falling yet" phase.

[wyclif]

I take a middle position on this having seen it all at Twitter since 2006. The site does still work, but not without outages. Of course, Twitter had major outages during the Williams/Costello/Dorsey period as well. What happened was that when Musk obtained control, the haters claimed that Twitter/X would burn down or get bricked. None of that ever happened, which leads some people to believe it "still works fine" with 20% of the former staff.

[PH95VuimJjqBqy]

you'll have to define what "it still works fine" means then, because your description certainly would meet my definition of the phrase.

[VirusNewbie]

It has had major outages and is losing a ton of money.

[minkiebun]

Keeping the lights on is typically around 10% of effort at Amazon. But there’s value in the ongoing development, which is why it’s done.