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Big discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33659197
“Elon Musk emailed Twitter staff on Friday asking that any employees who write software code report to the 10th floor of Twitter's office in San Francisco at 2 p.m., according to an email reviewed by Reuters.
"There will be short, technical interviews that allow me to better understand the Twitter tech stack," Musk wrote in the memo.”
"There will be short, technical interviews that allow me to better understand the Twitter tech stack," Musk wrote in the memo.”
> technical interviews that allow me to better understand the Twitter tech stack
And the stack is basically a very fancy CRUD app. That's all Twitter is. The only reason it's still operating is because of the premise: Create, Read, Update, Delete. NO magic sauce.
And the stack is basically a very fancy CRUD app. That's all Twitter is. The only reason it's still operating is because of the premise: Create, Read, Update, Delete. NO magic sauce.
Have you ever done CRUD for hundreds of millions of users distributed globally accessing your service 24/7? It's much more complicated than updating a database.
Then you have ranking algorithms, search, ad serving, moderation...
Then you have ranking algorithms, search, ad serving, moderation...
90% of their revenue comes from their massive and complicated ads platform, not the basic web app you deal with.