So one theory about Musk’s approach is that you cut down twitter to just it’s core functionality. So what do those other 80% of micro services do? Content moderation, spam, analytics. Presumably some of that infrastructure is related to advertising. But so far all of his numbers seem random and inflated, but I’m guess his strategy is going to be shut a bunch of stuff off and see what you don’t need. Fair enough when they’re in the dire financial straights they are.
Is it just me though or is part of this bike shedding on micro services vs monolith. Not really enough information to determine.
Edit: I hope all their circuit breakers work correctly.
Yup. Thing is though, nothing about their financial situation justifies this level of recklessness. Yes, there’s an urgent need to cut costs and find new sources of revenue, thanks to Musk’s own decisions to perform a leveraged buyout and then scare off advertisers. But that doesn’t justify making such sweeping changes in so short a time that there’s no way a proper due diligence is being done.
Honestly, I suspect the issue is much simpler. I think Musk detests and can’t bring himself to respect Twitter’s engineers at all, thanks to preconceptions he developed on the outside. That’s why he’s so happy to mock and trash their work in public, why he wanted to get rid of half of them without even giving them the courtesy of speaking to them, and why he believes he knows better. Expect most of those remaining to be replaced as soon as Musk finds other willing saps to take their places.
It’s the same reason so many of Musk’s fans, including a bunch of people on HN, reacted with such evident glee at seeing Twitter engineers being laid off. That’s not a healthy mindset.
Is it just me though or is part of this bike shedding on micro services vs monolith. Not really enough information to determine.
Edit: I hope all their circuit breakers work correctly.