>>57423053Engineer that knows what they're talking about: basically they got a handful of engineers without proper funding to try to make a Twitter clone, tried to beta test their shitty first draft and realized that it doesn't work well if any number of people use it because the optimization is shit and throwing more servers at the problem will be too expensive. So the guy writing the blog joined late and is trying to turn it into a semi-competent corporate tech project with things like a proper way to publish new code and making it easy to look at important performance data like if the most common/important actions are working at a vaguely decent level. Now he's working on fixing the worst bits of the shit optimization.
tl;dr Holoplus was underfunded and pushed into too big a beta too early but it gave management a wakeup call and the guy who wrote the blog post has half a clue about what he's doing so it'll probably get fixed.
