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.I was partly expecting the rest of the article to explain to me why exactly it wasn't 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 was all bloat.