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0 pointsilyt3y ago0 comments

> I know you think you’re smarter than everyone at Twitter. But those who really know what they are doing have a lot more respect for the engineers who built this insanity. There are always good intentions.

You ignored one possibility - that twitter engineers, or people managing them might be just incompetent and all of that might just be overly complex POS

There is that weird disgusting trend to assume just because company got big that means the tech choices were immaculate, and not everything else there is to successful companies.

You can make perfectly well doing company on totally mediocre product that hit the niche at right time

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threeseed3y ago

The core of Twitter is open-source: https://github.com/twitter

They wrote Finagle which is a very well written and highly regarded Scala micro-service framework that is used by other companies such as LinkedIn, Soundcloud etc. Likewise Pelikan is an excellent caching service.

We know that Scala is a proven, high-performance, type-safe language that is optimised for concurrency and stability. So it's not like their tech stack is written in Ruby and needs to be re-written in Rust or Go. It's already performant.

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