I don't envy the person tasked with trying to do automated integration tests of these systems at scale. Cache pollution is insidious.
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"...important and largest services (including our user service and our ads serving system) were among the first..." https://blog.twitter.com/2016/the-infrastructure-behind-twitter-efficiency-and-optimization …
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For some background fcebook faces a similar intersection of system architecture, ops, and distributed teams: http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/04/exclusive-a-behind-the-scenes-look-at-facebook-release-engineering/ …
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One of the amazing things about Twitter's public by default structure is how quickly we are are collectively able to spot changes like this.
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But my personal bias is to doubt narratives spread by people who spot it. No offence to anyone. I have no doubt you are seeing real things.
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I take all rumors w/ a grain of salt, and filter things through my nuanced lense of complexity and swarm intelgence. http://www.pnas.org/content/113/3/554 …
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🐜 🐻 Retweeted Venkatesh Rao
My utility function in judging rumor is weighted toward domain knowlege, (+accounting for atir-rosenzweig-dunning):https://twitter.com/vgr/status/546380168059551744 …
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how the hell are you finding ancient tweets by me? Are you trying to trap me in damaging self-contradictions? I deny it all.
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I search to find ones in my memory ("hey, vgr is doing cool stuff on conspiracies!). twitter doesn't default to live ones: serendipity.
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I search *a lot*. Ref: exploring the past https://twitter.com/ultimape/status/559662408525160450 …; I try to use twitter as slow-hunch generatorhttps://twitter.com/ultimape/status/720317482309844993 …
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I have a bot that does my slow hunches now @vgr_ebooks
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are your tiny spaceship series of bots part of learning for some bigger bot :D
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