On: Errors for the Twilio Rest API impacting multiple ...

[haswell]

The title is heavily editorialized and is essentially clickbait. It's fine to speculate about things, but at first glance, the title looks like someone wrote a piece that might try to tie the outage to actual facts about employees who departed and how they might be relevant to the outage.

This post is nothing of the sort, seems unlikely to provoke thoughtful discussion.

Edit: title has been updated since I wrote this comment.

[choppaface → haswell]

The context about layoffs is important! Users depend on not just reliable services but predictable management.

Here’s a related HN post describing a hiring effort during the layoffs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34804077

“For example, Twilio 2 days ago announced they were laying off 1000+ people, and here they are opening a staff software engineering role a day later.”

That’s just more evidence of significant incompetence at the leadership level that needs to be weighed when considering a service offering.