The questionable ethics of scapegoating aside, comparing Twitter's scalability issues with a misguided feature is particularly pointless.
If you wanted to blame someone for a feature (if you're into that sort of thing), you could either go after the concept or the execution. Once you pick either of the two, I'm sure you could winnow those down to a few people and then flip a coin or something.
If you want to blame someone for an app that's not scaling, you're trying to tie down a completely amorphous concept to a single event. Do you fire someone because they didn't have the clairvoyance of realizing that some lock somewhere had too much contention?
Scaling is really hard; and like other dark arts, it involves a lot of sleepless nights, long stretches of despair punctuated by moments of pure joy. There's just no easy way out of it. http://twitter.com/Werner/status/1472242433
If you wanted to blame someone for a feature (if you're into that sort of thing), you could either go after the concept or the execution. Once you pick either of the two, I'm sure you could winnow those down to a few people and then flip a coin or something.
If you want to blame someone for an app that's not scaling, you're trying to tie down a completely amorphous concept to a single event. Do you fire someone because they didn't have the clairvoyance of realizing that some lock somewhere had too much contention?
Scaling is really hard; and like other dark arts, it involves a lot of sleepless nights, long stretches of despair punctuated by moments of pure joy. There's just no easy way out of it. http://twitter.com/Werner/status/1472242433