Gregory's Server@joehalfmen @hu_logic @rodhilton he would have you believe that this is the case for Twitter as well. Comparing it to a Rube Goldberg machine, and how “disconnecting one of the sensitive server racks” didn’t stop it from working
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@joehalfmen @hu_logic @rodhilton he would have you believe that this is the case for Twitter as well. Comparing it to a Rube Goldberg machine, and how “disconnecting one of the sensitive server racks” didn’t stop it from working 2 comments
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@quoll @hu_logic @rodhilton the difference is that Twitter was built by teams of competent engineers who followed best practices by implementing proper workflows and code reviews. I don't doubt that it's a complex system, but that's not the same thing as "bad".
The company I was interviewing for was a half-digitized furniture company that was losing millions every month from their simple failure to automate their inventory management. They kept always hiring the cheapest devs, so their code quality was shit and they had absolutely no formalized internal workflows.
I do recognize I made a mistake by pitching a rewrite however. I should have sold them on splitting my time between maintaining the broken system and white boarding a new one over the course of 6 months, rather than spend the interview describeing all the ways their system needed to be replaced.
@quoll @hu_logic @rodhilton the difference is that Twitter was built by teams of competent engineers who followed best practices by implementing proper workflows and code reviews. I don't doubt that it's a complex system, but that's not the same thing as "bad".
The company I was interviewing for was a half-digitized furniture company that was losing millions every month from their simple failure to automate their inventory management. They kept always hiring the cheapest devs, so their code quality...