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There are more than 50 engineers working to support WhatsApp. A complete count should include all of the work that was out-sourced, such as engineers at AWS (o
by rwj 11y ago
There are more than 50 engineers working to support WhatsApp. A complete count should include all of the work that was out-sourced, such as engineers at AWS (or whomever is supplying the computing), the engineers for Erlang, etc. If the government builds a bridge by using a construction company, no one says the government is capable of building a bridge with zero engineers.
The app is still a remarkable achievement. Those engineers have done a remarkable job integrating everything (plus their own business logic on top), but they are also leveraging a great deal of work done by others.
- hansolo669 11y ago> If the government builds a bridge by using a construction company, no one says the government is capable of building a bridge with zero engineers. However I doubt people pay much attention to the companies quarrying rock to make concrete, or the engineers designing the axles of the trucks. Any large project is a team effort, but to count tangentially related projects as partitions of another ignores the achievements of those projects (i.e. AWS and Erlang are massive achievements that have, and will, exist regardless of WhatsApp). So, WhatsApp has 50 engineers modulo any dedicated support staff.
- claysmithr 11y ago> A complete count should include all of the work that was out-sourced No, it shouldn't. A complete account should just be people employed by the company.