Twitter IPO'd this month. Beyond the headlines, I found myself reflecting on what this means for engineers.
Twitter’s scale challenges are legendary—event queues, data pipelines, fanout models. Engineers there helped define how we think about real-time systems.
It’s a reminder that behind every billion-dollar valuation, there's infrastructure that’s often invisible. And engineers who had to fix things at 3 a.m.
If we want sustainable tech companies, we need to celebrate technical stewardship as much as product vision.