Honestly double that time frame (Or triple it, most likely), and the team of 50 can get it done… if that team has support. If we’re talking 50 swe III’s with expertise in high end scala and infrastructure design, and the specs are written cleanly, and they have good SREs in support, and they have a budget that lets them do full scale load testing… that is a doable thing. Close, but doable. Possibly without even crunch time if they go to 36 weeks. The specs are already written for much of twitter and the whole microservice architecture likely can be replaced piece by piece using very tightly contained contracts.
But the real problem is, he’s not going to find that crew of 50, because that crew of 50 would never work for someone like Elon.
