Great Story that the OP posted. I agree with others in here, Musk all but admitted it was a mistake in the way they did it.
He got lucky Twitter was still running but with big problems as he said.
To me, this haphazard way of operating is, let's say, you wouldn't want Musk operating on you if he was a doctor. He takes big chances on whim, has the money to do so and when he makes mistakes which he often does money gets it fixed.
But if you were a hospital patient and he was a doctor, he would lose his license to practice for all the chances he took on people who died because of his narcissism.
Am I one of the few that read the whole story? This isnt a hero's story! Even Musk would admit as follows =
"An example of Musk’s bold and scrappy approach! But as with all things Musk, it was, alas, not that simple. It was also an example of his recklessness, his impatience with pushback, and the way he intimidated people. X’s infrastructure engineers had tried to explain to him, in that head-explosion-emoji meeting a week earlier, why a quick shutdown of the Sacramento center would be a problem, but he shot them down. He had a good track record of knowing when to ignore naysayers. But not a perfect one.
For the next two months, X was destabilized. The lack of servers caused meltdowns, including when Musk hosted a Twitter Spaces for presidential candidate Ron DeSantis. “In retrospect, the whole Sacramento shutdown was a mistake,” Musk would admit in March 2023. “I was told we had redundancy across our data centers. What I wasn’t told was that we had 70,000 hard-coded references to Sacramento. And there’s still **** that’s broken because of it.”