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You can make most of the Big N sound silly like this. Amazon? Basically a warehouse. Netflix, YouTube? They just stream video. Facebook, Twitter? CRUD websites.
by read_if_gay_ 6y ago
You can make most of the Big N sound silly like this. Amazon? Basically a warehouse. Netflix, YouTube? They just stream video. Facebook, Twitter? CRUD websites.
It all sounds like anyone can put something like that together, but try scaling up to billions of users.
- speedgoose 6y agoFor sure if you remove the scalability challenges and profits optimizations techniques, these websites aren't that exciting for engineers.
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- jerzyt 6y agoExactly. And each one of these companies had built the business around a key idea. I interview a lot of candidates for data scientists, and one of my favorite questions is what makes one of these companies what they are.