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That math holds if they are planning to only spend money on hiring those people for 1 year only. More realistically, the money is probably for tech overhead. S
by dboshardy 10y ago
That math holds if they are planning to only spend money on hiring those people for 1 year only.
More realistically, the money is probably for tech overhead. Server space, software licensing, money for keeping all their servers working for a while (support, replacement servers/drives) etc.
- MichaelGG 10y agoNot being adversarial: What kind of software licensing is Snapchat paying? Dev tools, ok. Some BI/reporting stuff? I'd imagine everything else would be open source, right?
- askafriend 10y agoThey run fully on Google App Engine and obviously they have to store all of that heavy video data somewhere so bandwidth costs will be crazy. So a combination of them not having their own infra like FB does, and just the nature of the data they are responsible for is very heavy.