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stating 500 as 0.5k to seem more impressive is such a fucking elon thing
Ah, testing in production. Nice.
It’s a good thing he hasn’t bought a company that makes cars or rockets or something
This is how you can tell how much “engineering” musk really does
It’s amazing how obviously this is the case. Even the most rudimentary perf testing against a GQL layer would have API hit counts.
I understand some of these words
I think they already have.
“Phew, we’re safe now that people can’t access the only product we offer.”
Engineers who work with very high scale will try to limit the size of operations so that they’re not as resource-intensive as they would otherwise be. For instance, instead of running a data query on the entire database of the service, the data might be sharded (segmented) into several physical databases, so that only the relevant databases get queried, limiting what resources get used.
So, this is what Elon is doing here. Except nobody told him that engineers who are experimented with scale will implement resource limitations that the user doesn’t notice, so it always feels to them that they’re seamlessly interacting with a massive service even when they’re not.
But that only works if you still have engineers experimented with scale on staff…
