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Can't Spell Chernobyl Without Elon

by owlbynight on 11/14/22, 10:50 PM with 26 comments

• by vore on 11/15/22, 1:32 AM

  I hate to nitpick but,

    We ditched the dial-up modem quite awhile ago, Grandpa. While yes, I guess it’s possible, the idea that Twitter is using remote procedure calls instead of REST immediately felt wrong. It also felt wrong to blame the codebase for an intermittent problem without mentioning an accompanying change.
  

  I think the author has some idea of SOAP or CORBA in mind for RPC rather the more modern Thrift or gRPC solutions that are used extensively everywhere. I don't find it that unbelievable that Twitter would do 1000s of RPCs on the backend to render the home page, but that says basically nothing about if it's the bottleneck or not, after all.

  I don't want to defend Elon – far from it – but I think the author doesn't have their ducks quite in a row here.

• by Am4TIfIsER0ppos on 11/15/22, 1:09 AM

  Chernobyl going critical and destroying itself was a good thing?

• by d23 on 11/15/22, 1:27 AM

  He’s now made it clear to everyone that he’s an awful person. The stain will not be washed away. Radioactive is a good metaphor.

• by GoOnThenDoTell on 11/15/22, 1:35 AM

  Twitter engineers should unionize

  Elon Musk would hate that