“But in a sign of just how deep Elon Musk’s cuts to the company have been, only one site reliability engineer has been staffed on the project, we’re told.”
One site reliability engineer was staffed on the project to kill free API access. One bad config change broke links, images, TweetDeck and Twitter’s own internal tools. Fewer than 550 full-time engineers remain, and this was at least the sixth high-profile outage of the year. Musk blamed the brittle code stack. He fired the people who knew where it was brittle.