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...because it's only been a week and it takes longer for things to rot badly?



I think this post is aimed at non-technical "RIP Twitter" posters from last week who are surprised it didn't fall apart in 24 hours.


There was a long twitter thread from some one proclaimed 10+ years SRE listing a lot of things that could bring the server down. Lot of them are pretty far-fetched and outdated.

Too bad I did not bother to save the link.


You're thinking of https://twitter.com/MosquitoCapital/status/15935411779656785.... Remember, on Twitter your likes and follower counts are completely independent of your actual skill area and level. Most of that list reminded me of 2009-era site operations, nothing like what operating a high-traffic site is like in 2023.


servers don’t really rot if they don’t rely on 3rd party cloud software.

Linux doesn’t upgrade itself.

the web is very standards based.

Hacker news has pretty much been running for decades on the same software hardware stack


I’m fairly sure HN had outages as well.


outages are not usually rot.




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