Getting a distributed set up plugged into your k8s/whatever framework can be a pain.
The issue there is running it on k8s. On bare metal or even VMs it’s not at all hard to run even at scale.
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saryant commented on Twitter’s U.S. Ad Sales Plunge 59% as Woes Continue nytimes.com/2023/06/05/te... · Posted by u/bluefishinit
Their revenue is massively larger than the cost to run their servers (I used to run 3000 physical servers with a small team, it doesn't cost much)
> advertising revenue for the five weeks from April 1 to the first week of May was $88 million
You’re off by a couple
orders of magnitude on what it takes to run Twitter.
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saryant commented on Show HN: Making passive investing safer and better for everyone altsat.net/... · Posted by u/SirLJ
Anecdotally, Billionaires pushing money into science so they or a loved one can live longer has been some of the most misspent research money. There have been a good number of time I’ve read about a “genius financier” or “high tech magnate” that is going to shake up drug development, but I can’t think of a win.
Yes, Martin is now Lockheed-Martin. Other tech companies included IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle, Level3, EchoStar, DISH, and others.
The 36 corridor between Denver and Boulder was home to a ton of storage tech startups in the first dotcom boom. There’s still a street called “Tape Drive”.
saryant commented on The Twitter API is now effectively unmaintained snarfed.org/the-twitter-a... · Posted by u/edent
Is there research that shows that a well maintained API adds value to large established companies?
Maintaining a good API for an ever changing product is VERY non-trivial. Designing easy to consume APIs and writing good documentation requires some specialized skills. Internal APIs are often very different than external ones. Some times APIs need to be duplicated which can make breaking changes of the underlying systems more complex.
I can see the value of APIs for a growing company that is trying to establish itself, but there must be a line somewhere.
I suspect a large amount of API support over the last decade has been driven by brand development and recruiting.
The API was 10% of the company’s revenue before Musk took over. That’s a good amount of value.
saryant commented on The Twitter API is now effectively unmaintained snarfed.org/the-twitter-a... · Posted by u/edent
As expected, Twitter announces a v2 API just hours ago: https://twittercommunity.com/t/announcing-new-access-tiers-f...
Not the kind of announcement you typically expect from an unmaintained API!
The v2 API was built over the last several years. It’s not new and was announced a long time ago, well before the acquisition.
Source: led the search API at Twitter until last year.
saryant commented on The Twitter API is now effectively unmaintained snarfed.org/the-twitter-a... · Posted by u/edent
saryant commented on The Twitter API is now effectively unmaintained snarfed.org/the-twitter-a... · Posted by u/edent
That is the commercial API. People keep treating these the same, when they have nothing to do with eachother.
You need both. Without the free API you don’t have a funnel of new customers who can grow into the enterprise tiers.
They have a hell of a lot to do with each other beyond that too.
(Led the search API team at Twitter and worked on both API platforms)