[1/4] One of the fascinating things is watching Twitter’s behavior change, hour after hour, as various microservices go offline. It’s a real testament to that approach that things mostly work as various features wink out of existence.
[2/4] The iOS client stopped reporting notification counts, although it does put a dot where the number should be if there are more than zero. And those notifications no longer distinguish between your posts that people liked and posts that you retweeted that people liked. 
[3/4] But the core functions keep on trodding along, doing their thing. It’s like the end of 2001 when Dave is destroying HAL and HAL keeps on going, just gradually degrading, but continuing to work as far as his remaining capacities allow him to.
[4/4] Respect to the Twitter engineers who developed a system that can degrade so gracefully as various subsystems clearly implode. But it's only a matter of time before a core function is gone, and no one on staff knows how to get it back up. At this rate, I give it a week.
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