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I'm puzzled by this statement. Do you think of resiliency as waste? That twitter would have been fine without it?

The article makes a point that the reason Twitter is running ok on 20% of personnel at this moment is exactly because it was build to be resilient, not because the personnel was bloated. A large part of this so called bloat, the 80%, was responsible for Twitter to be running right now. Calling this bloat implies it is actually not important for Twitter to be available all the time (or at all).



How was twitter doing fine a few years back at half the number of employees and same number of users?




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