Less than 20% of Twitter's microservices are needed for it to work

I hope he turns off the microservices that deliver the "Twitter is better in the app" popup, and block my screen and tell me to sign up if I try scrolling down. As a matter of fact, going web-only would be a great way to streamline

So one theory about Musk’s approach is that you cut down twitter to just it’s core functionality. So what do those other 80% of micro services do? Content moderation, spam, analytics. Presumably some of that infrastructure is related to advertising. But so far all of his numbers seem random and inflated, but I’m guess his strategy is going to be shut a bunch of stuff off and see what you don’t need. Fair enough when they’re in the dire financial straights they are.<p>Is it just me though or is part of this bike shedding on micro services vs monolith. Not really enough information to determine.<p>Edit: I hope all their circuit breakers work correctly.

That he puts microservices scare quotes says it all, really. He clearly doesn’t understand modern large scale software architectures and is falling back on his archaic, outdated, and limited experience.<p>This isn’t the guy you want making these kinds of decisions. Even if there is bloat in services, which there inevitably is at any large company that’s been around for a while, it’s extremely unlikely that it’s 80% of them. Especially as Twitter’s infra team have in the past already done audits of running services to try to save on operational costs.<p>I wouldn’t be surprised if we see a serious outage or two in the coming couple of weeks.

20% of a tesla components are needed to go from A to B, yet you still very much like having headlights, a windshield, a roof, blinkers, &amp;c.<p>But as always, 80% of what he tweets he doesn&#x27;t even believe in and just does it to pump his companies&#x27; value

I don&#x27;t know about Twitter specifically, although the fact that Musk thinks they can run the company with half the pre-sale workforce gives an idea, but when I see the size of the engineering teams at many of those companies as reported in the media (I remember for instance that the size of the Uber team is in the thousands, or that Netflix runs 1,000 microservices), I am not surprised that there may be significant bloat.

dang, can we please change the title? This one takes Musk’s claim at face value, and is not a reliable enough statement of fact to be the headline.

I&#x27;ve seen this kind of issue first hand. At one project, the platform team spent all of their time concocting ways to create new microservices. It&#x27;s not a bad idea, but on some days I think it was just designed to sell AWS instances via Kubernetes.

But how many of those are required to make money?

Elon is creating Twitter MVP again? Small and agile Startup? Or a Reboot?

That is just crazy (if true), I always suspected bloat at these big silicon valley companies, but that 20% is just insane.