I remember they just turned “off” their microservice architechture, or the part which allows for autoscaling as per incoming load. So the servers just reached 100% utilization and crashed.
Comment on The Elon / Trump interview on X started with an immediate tech disaster
sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 5 weeks agoIts probably fairly straightforward:
Their new format and infrastructure for video hosting was not properly tested, and they did not expect the amount of bandwidth needed to support viewership demand.
Basically, same thing as a modern AAA live service game launch.
xavier666@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
PwnTra1n@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
how many russian twitter bots in one place does it take to crash twitter?
adarza@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
probably not very many because it only took a single psychotic new owner to do that when he started pulling servers out of a sacramento data center a couple years back, with no engineering and no planning.
sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
I am still hopeful the Twitter HQ will become a homeless shelter one way or another: Looks like Musky boy just hasn’t been paying rent, so, fingers crossed.
blackbelt352@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Its probably just… a distributed amount of viewers requesting more bandwidth than they expected/knew how to serve.
So a Group Hug of Death.
rayyy@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Xhitters full. Don’t light a match or it will blow - it sucks though.
suction@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
So they’re applying the Tesla method to Twitter now
InternetUser2012@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
Except with a modern AAA game, they have an understanding on how things work. This clown doesn’t.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Oh, my sweet child, no they don’t xP
blackbelt352@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I mean, the devs and server techs know what’s going on, its the execs and middle managers that need to get a live service on a shoestring budged to make the shareholders happy that you made them 25% more profit than last quarter.
Aceticon@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Well that’s the thing: they would need to hire actual server devs and techs in order to have somebody who knows what’s going on.
Having done both sides, I can tell you that front-end development in gamedev does not in any way form or shape prepare somebody for designing good backends at any level (code or systems architecture), designing multi-tiered systems or even to just design good comms protocols - they’re pretty much opposite sides of development, and not just in a physical or systems structure sense.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I enjoyed this way more than I probably should have lol.
InternetUser2012@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
You really think an AAA game isn’t more capable than a platform owned and run by Musk? They guy who fired everyone that would make sure shit like that worked. Come on man, the sweet child comment is cute but you’re comparing New York City to some bumfuck town in Indiana.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Having been a player of “triple A” games for a loooong time, they are shoddy at best and appallingly broken at worst (see especially: on launch, immediately after a successor is released). I haven’t seen a decent game launch that wasn’t indie in over a decade, and I’ll only be quiet about it when even one game from a big name publisher doesn’t suck hairy donkey balls.
It’s all about the profits, baby. Squeeze those pennies until they bleed. Buggy games, horribly inadequate servers, mass-banning players automatically and inaccurately, cheaters galore; doesn’t matter as long as profits go up. The CEO of EA or Ubi or whatever is no better, don’t get it twisted.
sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
I am remembering a lot of AAA games in the past two years that have launched and basically been unplayable for a day to two weeks due to some kind of combination of not enough servers, garbage netcode, or other game breaking bugs.
Elon just went to a different clown college.
(And no, I don’t care if the devs are good at their jobs but management fucked them! is the defense for AAA games. Sure, maybe that’s correct on an internal level. Doesn’t really matter for a consumable product. Would be nice if the idiot asshats got laughed out of the industry instead of new car collections, golden parachutes, but thats a whole 'nother discussion)