• SeaJ@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    I mean Twitter currently only has one site reliability engineer so being prepared is clearly not a priority for Musk.

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      11 months ago

      I very badly want this to be true, but I simply cannot imagine it. I think my company might have more SREs than Twitter has employees, but I cannot see how they could do global ops like that. Or even just California ops.

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        11 months ago

        If this sounds familiar, it’s because something similar happened in March, taking down links and images across timelines for around an hour. Twitter blamed that on an “internal change that had some unintended consequences” before Platformer reported the bug occurred because of a mistake by the site’s single remaining site reliability engineer, who was operating solo after Musk instituted massive layoffs.

        https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/13/24000170/x-outage-link-error-message-broken

        It was true in March at least.