> [Uber has] an app my cat could have written The other day on HN's frontpage was an article ("Software architecture is overrated") in which the author mention

> [Uber has] an app my cat could have written The other day on HN's frontpage was an article ("Software architecture is overrated") in which the author mentioned something that made me shudder: "Rewriting the Uber app was a project that a few hundred engineers worked simultaneously on, porting existing functionality to a new architecture." I keep not understanding how it is possible that companies whose core business is very far from IT (e.g. taxi and ride sharing for Uber, or television for Netflix) can be considered high-tech companies and take pride in investing inordinate amounts of money on engineering. What is the point? What is Netflix doing in the company of Facebook, Apple, Amazon and Google?