Musk orders Twitter to cut infrastructure costs by $1B(reuters.com)
reuters.com
Musk orders Twitter to cut infrastructure costs by $1B
https://www.reuters.com/technology/musk-orders-twitter-cut-infrastructure-costs-by-1-bln-sources-2022-11-03/
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Log less. Run on a 20 node cluster.
Good luck with that.
Also, interestingly that’s exactly the amount Twitter will need to service the debt they’re saddled with due to the acquisition. Now he just needs to make up the pesky $500M operating deficit and his shiny new toy will break even.
Also, interestingly that’s exactly the amount Twitter will need to service the debt they’re saddled with due to the acquisition. Now he just needs to make up the pesky $500M operating deficit and his shiny new toy will break even.
There’s probably a good amount of fat that can be cut. “Excess server capacity” implies to me that they don’t have an effective auto scaling strategy
Tell me you’ve never run infrastructure at scale without telling me you’ve never run infrastructure at scale.
Twitter runs their own data centers and hardware, so how can "improved auto-scaling" deliver a better COGS ratio?
They require enough computer with relatively static loads that going to the cloud probably makes little sense.
They require enough computer with relatively static loads that going to the cloud probably makes little sense.
Uhh - how do you “auto scale” data centers? Twitter is not on aws
Aww, I remember the Fail Whale. I hope they still have it somewhere, would be a nice reminder of the old days to see it again.
Almost exactly the debt service interest payments, what a surprise.
RIP cloud services. Google and Amazon overpriced their offerings and companies are finally moving away.
But, they said no. They decided they'd rather spend more on hardware and pay interns to work on the open source version than pay for a better compiler, because, open source.
That seemed like a very clear and objective example of where they preferred to spend money on increased headcount vs what was maybe the most cost-efficient business decision. I wonder how many more examples like there are lurking in the corners.