Note they are looking for developers, not sysadmins. Yes, 1000 servers translates to roughly 40 racks and you'd better have a team of sysadmins to babysit them

Note they are looking for developers, not sysadmins. Yes, 1000 servers translates to roughly 40 racks and you'd better have a team of sysadmins to babysit them. Imho that doesn't have much to do with hiring 40 perl developers in one fellow swoop, though.