Ask HN: Is Twitter really as poorly engineered as Elon say it is?

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4 years ago

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1592177471654604800

Elon states - Twitter is doing 1000+ RPCs for a single timeline - Only 20% of Twitter's microservices are needed, and he's turning off a lot of them

Can someone with expertise in Networking and large-scale infrastructure help me understand if Twitter is actually poorly architected? Or is Elon missing certain critical information here?

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