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Twitter has near 5,000 employees
Posted on 4/17/18 at 7:40 pm
Posted on 4/17/18 at 7:40 pm
I know someone here will give me a good answer but god what do all those people do? It’s a glorified EBB - I guess there is a certain amount of talent needed to make something look so simple but I’m at a loss. Thanks gurus
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Posted on 4/17/18 at 8:07 pm to Morty
This is a long really techie worded blog posting from twitter about some of the infrastructure. It's all above me for sure.
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When you're dealing with that much data and traffic it's going to require some manpower even if a lot of the services are outsourced
The better question might be how they ONLY have 5,000 employees.
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When you're dealing with that much data and traffic it's going to require some manpower even if a lot of the services are outsourced
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Fast forward a few years and we were running a network with POPs on five continents and data centers with hundreds of thousands of servers.
The better question might be how they ONLY have 5,000 employees.
Posted on 4/17/18 at 8:12 pm to Powerman
Silicon Valley companies are never shy about hiring especially when stocks are always rising.
But your point about what goes on below the service - the proverbial duck’s legs - That’s kind of what I expected
But your point about what goes on below the service - the proverbial duck’s legs - That’s kind of what I expected
Posted on 4/17/18 at 8:19 pm to Morty
Takes a lot of backend servers to make twitter go. Takes a lot of people to repair those servers, shift network traffic for switch/router repairs, create new versions of software, marketing, logistics for parts, and so on.
Posted on 4/17/18 at 9:15 pm to Powerman
5,000 seems like a low number for Twitter. A lot goes into keeping large enterprises rolling.
Posted on 4/18/18 at 5:32 am to Powerman
I worked at one of the most powerful supercomputing centers in the world. We were #3 When I was there a little over 10 years ago and we had about 35 main people.....overall about 100 on project. we handled data in many petabytes daily and ran on the fastest network on earth. The systems we ran didnt exist anywhere else so everything compiled was done at the binaries.
5000 people is going to be mostly people trying to figure out how to make and handle money.
5000 people is going to be mostly people trying to figure out how to make and handle money.
This post was edited on 4/18/18 at 5:35 am
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