"1 year" updates from X/Twitter Engineering

Keep up the good work.

From the technical point of view, it seems to be necessary to optimize wherever possible to get the costs down as much as possible. The old Twitter management should get sued by earlier stakeholders for not doing that earlier.

What ever happens to the platform in the future - it's just a platform and not your Aunt. I find it thrilling to see what happens technically and have big respect for the devs to undo the failures of former devs. Go go go go go guys and gals.

>Shutdown the Sacramento data center and re-provisioned the 5,200 racks and 148,000 servers, which generated more than $100M in annual savings. In total, we freed up 48 MW of capacity and tore down 60k lbs. of network ladder rack before re-provisioning it to other data centers.

The story of how they did this is in the new Elon Musk biography by Walter Isaacson. It's a pretty cool story.