Twitter Infrastructure - Will it go down? Listen to the Engineers

This is a mashup of two videos. One was done by Chris Titus and the other was from Steven Mark Ryan Solving The Money Problem. They were cut together to summarize the infrastructure problems at twitter. Chris Titus video is 1 month older than the discussion between Elon Musk and the Twitter engineers. the full videos for both can be found in below

Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
01:10 Broken Advertising Model
02:20 Complicated Infrastructure
04:31 Twiiter will need a rewrite
04:52 Even more complicated
06:29 Adding view count
08:03 Old code still running
10:28 Can we afford food?
13:11 twitter getting scammed
15:48 twitter is a mess

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Sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUbU-Zy29i0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fgESJ7U3VE&t=1387s
Moving to GCP - May 2022: https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastructure/2022/scaling-data-access-by-moving-an-exabyte-of-data-to-google-cloud
Infrastructure Document 2017: https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastructure/2017/the-infrastructure-behind-twitter-scale