These days a couple of script kiddies with a couple of powerful servers can write the "software technology" for a site like this.
99% overhead?
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Parler was doomed to fail no matter what Cloud provider, or implementation stack they chose.
Host Twitter on AWS for scalability
parler already made this mistake. never trust amazon.
So why did Musk friend and recent CEO @jack not fix this?
Twitter engineers are basically just simpleton web developers
and most of them aren't even that good!!! Some spend more time on w3schools than they do in staging, and I'm not exaggerating!!
Twitter engineers are basically just simpleton web developers. They know a little Javacript, try to act cool with Typescript, and they know CSS like nobody else. They have no idea what a microservice is. When they hear microservice, they go big. I mean really big. We uber services here. Think monolith. Look, at the end of the day, its just a glorified web page with HTML, CSSS, and little bit of backend code.
Host Twitter on AWS for scalability. 20 top talent engineers max including devs, QA, etc.