Twitter(X) Is Down

Yes, the head of product dev recently bragged about only having 30 engineers.

Sometimes more people in the kitchen is worse

From what I understand, they effectively rewrote all Scala/JVM/Python services to go through the xAI engine for their feed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8JOlCvA4Qs

I am not sure how that works at scale or how much money that burns, OR if this is even true, but a Rust monolith of this kind, where everything is a Black Box, could very will be maintained by 30 people.

That said, X is a complete dumpster fire where I want to pour Clorox into my eyes after 30 seconds.

I miss being plugged into a 24/7 feed of professional reporters, and at the same time - thank you, Elon, for fixing my addiction.

How may does GitHub have? its down far more than x.com

Speak for yourself.

I like it and I don't use it at all for politics.

In my mind, it isn't about any specific expectation. Events like this are interesting because the cracks are starting to show when a company follows the "fire as many people as possible, run lean, integrate AI" strategy. The trend I'm seeing is that downtimes are becoming more common, which in turn does not speak well to that strategy.

Yes, I think we’d all benefit from that perspective. Of course, the revenue implications for the ownership of one of these pointless brain rot factories being down for a half hour are enormous. That’s a little notable but only for their shareholders.

Because many people (including high profile CEOs and VCs) are social media and X addicts. They spend literally all waking hours interacting with it.

What's UpDog?

oh, didn't know about Updog. Thanks for linking it - i need this in my life.

Hey, the uptime for oxygen is 99.9% this month

Why are you complaining about the half hour of no air? Did you suffer some sort of brain damage? (<-- that's the joke. look up "hypoxia" if you didn't get it. Oh, and try not to get hypoxia.)

Grok will give solace and support. It assured me that I was not banned (yet).