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This is all needed to continue to iterate on software. It’s not as needed for the ossified state Twitter has been in for many years, as the parent pointed out. Acknowledge there is _some_ work needed, maybe refreshing certs (though software systems I have built have always been set up to do that automatically), apply security patches, keep an eye on dashboards. But this is a job for a skeleton team, not 7500 engineers or whatever. It’s honestly kind of sad it took that many people to basically “keep Twitter up” all these years.

[dzikimarian]

I believe that 7500 is total headcount, not just engineers, but yeah software development can be terribly inefficient, when all problems are solved by throwing money at them, like VC funded startups like to do.

We'll see what happens now, when there seems to be a drought.