@Mer__edith upfront: i do highly value your work, both personally and that of the whole signal team. you are doing a great service to society!
also, i have not run signal's infrastructure, but i have run ISPs until 2008 and am still helping various clients deliver their serices. i will
not mention any names, but you know many of them. i might know a little bit about scalable software… 🧵
@Mer__edith that said, i think there is a real problem with the narrative of your thread, that the problem at hand was so big that it needed the help of a hyperscaler, that not even signal could run their own infra on bare metal.
in my world, clients who have infra in perfectly good shape, scaling out, performant, whatever, voluntarily give up this privilege and submit themselves to #capswag on the basis of anecdotal evidence like this… 🧵