Is Twitter’s Treatment Of Its Software Developers Fair?
1,438Twitter has been in the news lately for the wrong reasons. The changes made are controversial, and maybe even cruel, but are they justified on the grounds of their software engineering?
Does Twitter need a technical shake-up and so are these radical changes to some extent justified or is this just dogma, politics and marketing?
In this episode Dave Farley, author of best-selling books on software development and software engineering, explores, and critiques, how Twitter approach the development of their software and attempts to answer the question of whether or not the harsh treatment of Twitter employees is in any way justifiable.
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🔗 LINKS:
Dave on Mastodon: @davefarley77@techhub.social
“How Twitter Makes Money” ➡️ https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/120114/how-does-twitter-twtr-make-money.asp
“Twitter Infrastructure” ➡️ https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastructure/2017/the-infrastructure-behind-twitter-scale
“Hadoop Filesystem at Twitter” ➡️ https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/a/2015/hadoop-filesystem-at-twitter
“Google Drops Hadoop” ➡️ https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2014/06/25/google-dumps-mapreduce-favor-new-hyper-scale-analytics-system
“Tweets per second record broken” ➡️ https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/a/2013/new-tweets-per-second-record-and-how
“LMAX Technology” ➡️ https://www.lmax.com/technology
“Testing at Twitter” ➡️ https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastructure/2019/integrationtestsatscale
"Scaling Data Access - Moving an Exabyte of Data to the Cloud" ➡️ https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastructure/2022/scaling-data-access-by-moving-an-exabyte-of-data-to-google-cloud
"Processing Billions of Events in Real Time at Twitter" ➡️ https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastructure/2021/processing-billions-of-events-in-real-time-at-twitter-
“Twitter: Cruel Treatment of Software Engineers” ➡️ https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/twitter-cruel-treatment-of-software-engineers/
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