Id say its just as much about culture change as it is about saving money.
Musk wants to shock people out of their complacency.
They need to understand its a different company now. Results now matter.
And publicly disagreeing with the owner of the company, whilst working for the company shows this guy is not particularly bright. So probably no great loss.
Maybe it shows that the guy values integrity higher than his job, or that he thinks he has alternatives to putting up with any BS a capricious owner wants to put him through.
He was saying things that were clearly wrong (e.g. the client makes thousands of requests just to load the timeline), and easy to verify. So if that came from "multiple senior tech people", he's firing the wrong ones.
From other tweets I've read, the senior tech people could have told him something correct — that loading the timeline results in thousands of requests to microservices — but he misunderstood it — those requests do not at all originate 1:1 from the client, and they are not a huge factor in the overall latency.
Thats a possibility. Another possibility is that, unlike Elon Musk, nobody in this thread has the slightest clue as to what is going on with Twitter in any real sense but we all pretend that we do.
Do you really think a business works best if the owner surrounds themselves with yeasayers who nod along to everything they say, no matter how factually wrong it is?
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Id say its just as much about culture change as it is about saving money. Musk wants to shock people out of their complacency. They need to understand its a different company now. Results now matter.
And publicly disagreeing with the owner of the company, whilst working for the company shows this guy is not particularly bright. So probably no great loss.
Maybe it shows that the guy values integrity higher than his job, or that he thinks he has alternatives to putting up with any BS a capricious owner wants to put him through.
Well maybe but Elon's opinions I believe were based on discussions with multiple senior tech people at Twitter.
Either way, it sounds like both parties are better off if he leaves so all good.
He was saying things that were clearly wrong (e.g. the client makes thousands of requests just to load the timeline), and easy to verify. So if that came from "multiple senior tech people", he's firing the wrong ones.
From other tweets I've read, the senior tech people could have told him something correct — that loading the timeline results in thousands of requests to microservices — but he misunderstood it — those requests do not at all originate 1:1 from the client, and they are not a huge factor in the overall latency.
Thats a possibility. Another possibility is that, unlike Elon Musk, nobody in this thread has the slightest clue as to what is going on with Twitter in any real sense but we all pretend that we do.
Do you work for Twitter?
Do you really think a business works best if the owner surrounds themselves with yeasayers who nod along to everything they say, no matter how factually wrong it is?
No but there is a middle ground here and publicly disagreeing when there is so much media attention is just plain stupid.
And who knows what is or isn't factually wrong here...certainly not you (or me).