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software architecture
Sorry I meant architecture in a wholistic sense - all the systems, processes, organisation, etc. and businesses generally.
But yeah the general point stands. Although I guess it would be interesting to do a compare and contrast with some old school case studies - as I can imagine there are some similarities between the "excesses" in modern tech cos compared to companies of the past with final salary pension schemes and strong unions.
hugo7-
Sorry I meant architecture in a wholistic sense - all the systems, processes, organisation, etc. and businesses generally.
Aah - of course. I guess while you're changing the direction of that kind of stuff the last thing you want is any actual problems with the widgets - you just want that to keep running without attention for a while. Whoops!
The numbers are ridiculous. Aware that they're probably reported with some degree of inaccuracy, but there were 7,500. He fired about half so 3,750 left. Then (again from what I've read) 80% of those have chosen not to be hardcore, so there's 750 left.
I can't believe it'll be able to keep running with 10% of the engineers it had a few weeks ago.
christianSpaceman
I think Twitter had a decent software architecture already, and (presumably) was more or less appropriately sized for it. Details of it are asked at interview questions. I don't imagine there's be a tonne of mileage in trying to refactor it too heavily.
It's the world cup next week - I've read that some critical teams ('serve tweets' being one of them) now have no employees. I imagine there's a really high risk that twitter will go down sooner rather than later.