Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE
> This left a lot wondering what exactly was going on with all those engineers and made it seem like it was all just bloat.<p>I was partly expecting the rest of the article to explain to me why exactly it <i>wasn't</i> just bloat. But it goes on talking about this 1~3-person cache SRE team that built solid infra automation that's really resilient to both hardware and software failures. If anything, the article might actually persuade me that it <i>was</i> all bloat.