“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.”
> 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.
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...
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[ 5.2 ms ] story [ 39.7 ms ] thread"There will be short, technical interviews that allow me to better understand the Twitter tech stack," Musk wrote in the memo.”
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.
Then you have ranking algorithms, search, ad serving, moderation...