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2021-10-29
How Watsapp scaled to over a billion dollars with less than 50 developers
Check out the lead HN comment regarding quality vs quantity of ideas. Looks to me like this is yet another example of the difficulty of maintaining organizational focus, even with great people coming up with lots of great ideas. You simply can't do everything both in detail and at any sort of scale. Has implications for automated A/B testing and HDB. Perhaps there is another "iron triangle" of ideas, architecture, and staffing? Here's the engineering stack
How Watsapp scaled to over a billion dollars with less than 50 developers
Check out the lead HN comment regarding quality vs quantity of ideas. Looks to me like this is yet another example of the difficulty of maintaining organizational focus, even with great people coming up with lots of great ideas. You simply can't do everything both in detail and at any sort of scale. Has implications for automated A/B testing and HDB. Perhaps there is another "iron triangle" of ideas, architecture, and staffing? Here's the engineering stack
Check out the lead HN comment regarding quality vs quantity of ideas. Looks to me like this is yet another example of the difficulty of maintaining organizational focus, even with great people coming up with lots of great ideas. You simply can't do everything both in detail and at any sort of scale. Has implications for automated A/B testing and HDB. Perhaps there is another "iron triangle" of ideas, architecture, and staffing? Here's the engineering stack