Tanooj Parekh

Quitting Twitter Inc earlier this year is like graduating high school and feeling a bit sad but like, nostalgic, and then a few months later your high school explodes.

@eddiex @YuanjunYang @BhavdeepSethi Great blog post, and great work! 🙂

We finally published the blog on Twitter Engineering! Amazing to co-author it with @YuanjunYang and @BhavdeepSethi If you’re interested in large scale machine learning infra, join us and lets write the next chapter together!

Excited to share more about my journey so far at Abnormal, and why I made the choice to join this team :)

@sdachen @BenLoggedOn Seriously, HOW did you notice me? I wouldn't have been able to notice myself.

@BenLoggedOn @tanoojp is that you as an intern?😂

@TheGerardTaylor @Twitter Congrats Gerard! 🥳

Folks, I just got the news. My promo went through 😭😭. I'm now Gerard Taylor, Senior Software Engineer. The past year+ has been tough to say the least with COVID and all the other stuff going on in the world. @Twitter gave me the space mentally and emotionally to

@brantsui The second half actually reminded me of Moyes' United team. Just side to side with no penetration down the middle. 😐

I’m done with this football club. Get Pochettino now or it will get relegated. #ArtetaOut

@shravana87 @IshanShiriyar @rddvl11 Congrats!

Our little bundle of joy- Ishan (@ishanshiriyar) arrived on Sept 30th @rddvl11 🥰

@pasha407 Congratulations! 😁

Little Andrew Newton

Part 2 of the platform rebuild blog - kudos @cdharini and @_pawanv! twitter.com/TwitterEng/sta…

Twitter's Ads services grew over time to become monolithic and slowed down development velocity. Over the last 1.5 years, we've worked to rebuild our stack, with a platform-first approach. Happy to discuss our approach and the trade-offs we described in this blog!

@SashaGavrilov We haven't planned tech talks yet, but we can certainly consider them - @jianhangg @kavitakanetkar wdyt? In the meantime, we do plan to publish a couple of more blog posts on our efforts, watch out for them :) Some other links - blog.twitter.com/engineering/en… blog.twitter.com/engineering/en…

@SashaGavrilov Agreed! To be clear, we also serve ads to an RTB network (see MoPub) - and we had to make sure to still support tighter SLAs for those requests. Of course, it was easier to find room to maneuver on Twitter-owned ad inventory.

@SashaGavrilov With these, we were able to achieve the desired parity goals. While in theory we used latency for the increased hops, in practice we found that 1) the increase is small enough to not cause harm in the short term, and 2) its the right tradeoff for long term productivity goals. 4/4

@SashaGavrilov 2) Identified inefficiencies in the clients of the ad server so that we could afford a slightly larger latency budget to find ads (this was only possible in some cases). 3) Spent a considerable amount of time working with Twitter's network eng team to design the optimal arch. 3/n

@BhavdeepSethi Yeah, that was my reaction as well.

Loving voice twitter. Now we need automatic captions.

There's a saying that writing software is more like tending a garden than constructing a building -- things constantly change. But the more I learn about how buildings evolve, I think this process is actually a perfect analogy for designing software! Thread:

@chickenbellyfin @DoorDash I hope you get a bug bounty for this