Have you implemented a system which stores hundreds of billions of pieces of media content and makes different slices of them immediately available to hundreds of millions of users?
I'm currently the first and sole architect on a product that was built by only devs. I really know why I exist.
Where’s the 1000s of engineers for Postgres? Most stuff that works is made by a handful of people. Look at io_uring it’s basically one guy at Facebook…
You're comparing Postgres to Twitter?
If some of the people making comments like this actually work in tech, then yeah, maybe there is a lot of bloat to be cut.
https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2017/04/20/analyzing-postgres...
Not tens of thousands at any one organization supporting postgres and clickhouse.
No single organization needs even hundreds of people to support these apps. You just need a good architecture and a handful of dba's, developers, and sysadmins... maybe.. depending on your scale. At many smaller orgs you can probably get away with one.
It provides a house for your clicks, then you sell the clicks from your house.
In twitters case I would recommend they use checkhouse which will help them monetize their checks. Tumblr is already way ahead of them.
