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LT Re: Musk and microservices I will explain this further. A microservice is not a "small program". It is a service in a distributed system that is small enough to manage by a small team. For Twitter, there is probably, say, a search service, that gets poked when a user...On twitter.com
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...wants to search for tweets or front-end service that serves the actual website layout, or a twee service for posting. These services are also redundant: imagine if all Twitter traffic had to ask the same server for the home page. It wouldn't be hard to see why that'd breakPermalink On twitter.com
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By removing 80% of the nodes of the distributed system that runs Twitter, you are putting more strain per node on the remaining 20%. You are creating more bloat, not less. This is day one of any distributed systems or software engineering class.Permalink On twitter.com
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Musk is stupid. Or rather, he is cutting corners to pinch cents together in random places and framing it like he's this visionary slashing bloat. Meanwhile actual software engineers are saying he's not even referring to the right tech half the timePermalink On twitter.com
