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jameshart on Nov 22, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SR...

That small team seems to have been running the caches for other teams, by using infrastructure provided by another team, in two massive datacenters operated by other teams, using monitoring tools managed by another team, and a ticketing system run by another, on hardware purchases by another team…

All just to put caching in front of services that actually do anything.

water8 on Nov 22, 2022 [–]

Can’t forget about those people that ordered that hardware once. He probably had to go to the business website and everything.

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