Twitter's head of engineering resigns a day after DeSantis campaign announcement

There was definitely a "Silicon Valley" (the tv show) vibe - the one where Hooli was using the new compression technology to livestream a UFC fight. Or the "make a gesture! Discussion between gavin and bighead.

I think shit happens, it's almost a law of nature that something is going to go wrong in a big event like that, no matter how thorough the preparation. I don't think it's a big deal. Though I'd expect people are paid a lot of money to ensure everything is perfect, so I understand why heads would roll.

No stress testing the servers, naughty naughty.

Elon please hire me, I can use Jmeter to scale a 1000 users per second on my IBM Thinkpad to put load on the servers.

/s

So he got fired? [Asked to resign and he didn't have any choice in the matter.]

I wonder if he knew it would fail but had to pretend it wouldn’t. Toxic cultures don’t accept speaking up