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i think you underestimate the massive amount of backend and internal optimization that's required. Sure, the MVP of Twitter is a few thousand lines of code, bu
by mattzito 9y ago
i think you underestimate the massive amount of backend and internal optimization that's required. Sure, the MVP of Twitter is a few thousand lines of code, but think about ad buying, ad display, abuse detection, customer service, content management, APIs, mobile, mobile web, etc., and that's just on the engineering side of things. For every engineer you'll need business folks, PMs, designers, operations, etc.
- fixermark 9y agoHell, Twitter is a great example. We know what Twitter looks like without enough staff: an unreliable MVP that fail-whales all the time. Twitter acquired the staff and capital to scale up and they became far more stable. The economies of scale large computer systems offer are counter-weighted by the n-squared complexity of larger systems.
- icebraining 9y agoYet Whatsapp managed to support 500M users sending 10 billion messages/day using five mobile apps with only 50 engineers.