I know the tone of the article was to be critical, but honestly, I found myself identifying with opposite emotions reading it. There's a lot of Musk's arrogance that really puts me off, but I do appreciate his willingness to push back on the BS and waste in our industry.
>What I wasn’t told was that we had 70,000 hard-coded references to Sacramento<p>There's plenty of real world scenarios that could have taken out that data center and the Twitter engineering team would have been scrambling to fix, just the same.<p>I read somewhere once that v1 of chaos monkey was the Netflix CEO randomly pulling cables in a data center to prove the point that systems needed rugged designs. Not all too different.
The author of this article is a moron. He's constantly saying how bad Musk's actions were while describing how everything worked out! Look, guy, there are some big lessons here that just went right past you...
Question: if one day truckloads of servers suddenly arrive at your workplace from another data center (they were not gracefully shutdown) and you're told to bring them online asap, what are the steps you'll do to bring them online again and make sure all applications running on those servers start again? Not sure how many servers in those trucks, but the old data center contract was $100MM/year. How long it'll take you to do it? Your team is also recently hit with a terrible round of layoff, leaving only a skeleton crew.
Comments from when this was posted yesterday.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37486822">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37486822</a>