[alyxya]

I read that they only have 30 people maintaining the whole app. It must be difficult holding everything together with so few people, and probably insufficient redundancy with oncall.

[DustinEchoes]

Yes, the head of product dev recently bragged about only having 30 engineers.

[jpmcglone]

Sometimes more people in the kitchen is worse

[renegade-otter]

From what I understand, they effectively rewrote all Scala/JVM/Python services to go through the xAI engine for their feed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8JOlCvA4Qs

I am not sure how that works at scale or how much money that burns, OR if this is even true, but a Rust monolith of this kind, where everything is a Black Box, could very will be maintained by 30 people.

That said, X is a complete dumpster fire where I want to pour Clorox into my eyes after 30 seconds.

I miss being plugged into a 24/7 feed of professional reporters, and at the same time - thank you, Elon, for fixing my addiction.

[small_model]

How may does GitHub have? its down far more than x.com