IIRC Twitter once almost shutdown Snowflake ’cause folks reclaiming hardware from obsolete services didn’t know what the small cluster did. x.com/craigcalef/sta…
[redacted], a security engineer reviewing the proposed changes, recognized the server count/cluster topology just-in-time to save the day.
Ian Brown@igb
That was right after a couple of RIFs had diminished Twitter’s institutional knowledge.