It may not be the best way, but I could certainly see it having some value.
Twitter has a ton of home grown tooling that a company it size wouldn't have if it was started today.
Is the team of people maintaining their custom stream processing engine really going to say "You could probably just replace this whole team by using Flink"? Repeat for their custom NoSql DB, their batch processing engine, their RPC framework etc.
Twitter has a ton of home grown tooling that a company it size wouldn't have if it was started today.
Is the team of people maintaining their custom stream processing engine really going to say "You could probably just replace this whole team by using Flink"? Repeat for their custom NoSql DB, their batch processing engine, their RPC framework etc.