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They haven’t released that information yet. We won’t know until the layoffs are complete.
Your “guess” is incorrect because you have no idea how any of this works, and no idea who is being let go. You also clearly don’t use Twitch very much, so how could you possibly know the features that need to be maintained, deployed, fixed, and managed?
You have not provided examples except for your own company and Valve, which is in a different industry. None of those work as a comparison.
I hate greedy corporations like Twitch, and am not defending them. I’m simply trying to tell you why you’re wrong, and you just keep parroting the same incorrect assumptions back. Why do you want Twitch to lay off even more people? It seems like you might be the one defending them, since this is a thread about layoffs after all. Layoffs that they shouldn’t be doing because ultimately the execs were the ones that fucked up if they overhired, and they’re also the ones that want more money for themselves. Layoffs = bigger exec bonuses.
No. Video is much more bandwidth intensive. Transcoding streams is also one of the most hardware intensive things you can do. They’re not the same, and just because they don’t own the hardware does not mean that they don’t have to manage their hardware. AWS only provides access to their platform to Twitch in the same way they do for normal customers, therefore Twitch must handle everything the same as a normal customer would. They just get discounts, that’s the only difference; they still own their infra. I think you might not know what “infra” is.
You are continuing to assume that you’re correct and smarter than a huge company with thousands of employees. If you know how Twitch can reduce headcount further, I’m sure the greedy execs would love to hear your ideas. They’d love to fire more engineers with your brilliant solution.
Bandwidth doesn’t require extra manpower? Since when? If you have a solution to reduce manpower for massive amounts of daily bandwidth, you could change big tech forever. So please enlighten us.
Where are you getting the idea that having that much traffic, bandwidth, and daily active users only requires a skeleton crew? It’s clear to me that you’ve never worked at scale, and never have you had to deal with anything related to big tech (and I have, which is why I know that you’re incorrect). If you ever go to a bigger company, you are in for a shock. You really think a huge company like Twitch just has dead weight that they pay salary to for no reason, when their goal is ultimately to make more money?
It’s okay to be wrong. What’s not okay is continually refusing to admit that you are in the wrong when multiple people are telling you exactly what the flaw in your logic is. You clearly are not worth arguing with, because you always have to be right and can never be wrong.
Mozilla does not exist because of Google. Google doesn’t have controlling power over Mozilla, nor do they have power over the many forks. It’s hilarious that you think a company would give a shit about being a monopoly; that’s what they strive for. This stupid take has been going around for years, and I’m sad to see it spread to Lemmy.
It’s not about mass adoption for me. It’s about not giving Google my info to resale. You should do what’s best for you, not what is going to get adopted enmass. I do see how you could’ve taken my recommendation as ‘killing google’ given the parent comment, though. Unfortunately Google isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, but that doesn’t mean you have to use it.
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Greedy short-sighted execs strike again.