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The Scoop: Turmoil at Twitter

The Pragmatic Engineer

On Wednesday, 26 October, Elon Musk entered Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco with a sink, marking his arrival at the company he’d just bought. Obviously – given Musk is a heavy user of Twitter – the sink was an unsubtle reference to a popular Twitter meme, “let that sink in.”

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Code Review on Printed Paper: an Excerpt from the Twitoons Comic Book

The Pragmatic Engineer

The topic will also be more lighthearted: Big Tech, Twitter, and comics. Manu recently published his book Twitoons: one employee’s cartoon chronicle of Twitter’s accelerated descent. Code review on printed paper: an excerpt from the Twitoons book A year ago, the end of October 2022 was a very turbulent time at Twitter.

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Twitter’s ongoing cruel treatment of software engineers

The Pragmatic Engineer

I was really hoping to not report anything more about Twitter, and that software engineers at the company would get space to heal after the traumatic events, and to focus on building the product. More in the article Turmoil at Twitter. More in the article Cruel changes at Twitter. ” was last Thursday, 17 November.

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Cruel Changes at Twitter

The Pragmatic Engineer

Last Thursday, I covered the turmoil at Twitter , of how people worked long hours through the weekend and how most expected layoffs of about 50%. On Friday, 4 November, Twitter started to let go of about half of its staff, around 3,700 people. Many of these people had been with Twitter for 5+ years.

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Revisit The Fundamental Principles Of Working With Data To Avoid Getting Caught In The Hype Cycle

Data Engineering Podcast

What are the areas of the data ecosystem that you see the most turmoil and confusion? Contact Info Juan LinkedIn @juansequeda on Twitter Website Tim LinkedIn @TimGasper on Twitter Website Parting Question From your perspective, what is the biggest gap in the tooling or technology for data management today? Rudderstack : ![Rudderstack]([link]

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