How to build your infrastructure with so many redundancies that not even Elon could bring your site down when he randomly started unplugging shit at one of their data centers, perhaps?
The infrastructure around sending small chunks of data around at that scale, at a time when people were sending larger files/messages around was interesting, enough so that even to this day “design twitter” is the canonical system design interview question.
They were also initially behind some cool things in the front-end space, like Bootstrap.
What cool tech problem has twitter worked on in the last decade?
How to build your infrastructure with so many redundancies that not even Elon could bring your site down when he randomly started unplugging shit at one of their data centers, perhaps?
That ones easy and zero percent a twitter thing. Multi AZ infra is incredibly common and industry standard
The infrastructure around sending small chunks of data around at that scale, at a time when people were sending larger files/messages around was interesting, enough so that even to this day “design twitter” is the canonical system design interview question.
They were also initially behind some cool things in the front-end space, like Bootstrap.