He has a team of skilled coders. If you follow some of the complaints about twitter you find out the infrastructure is kinda fed up.
Apparently programmers where getting incentives for how many libraries they created and how often they where used.
This lead to reinventing basic things like load balancers and web servers from scratch vs very optimized open source solutions. Essentially reinventing the wheel instead of new features .
George Hotz known for various coding and hacking projects was there and did an interview recently where he discuss how the code base was next to impossible to maintain in its current state at Twitter.
He has a team of skilled coders. If you follow some of the complaints about twitter you find out the infrastructure is kinda fed up.
Apparently programmers where getting incentives for how many libraries they created and how often they where used.
This lead to reinventing basic things like load balancers and web servers from scratch vs very optimized open source solutions. Essentially reinventing the wheel instead of new features .
George Hotz known for various coding and hacking projects was there and did an interview recently where he discuss how the code base was next to impossible to maintain in its current state at Twitter.