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> From their start in 2013, Nubank has grown to 600 Clojure developers, running 2.5 million lines of Clojure code in 500 microservices on over 2000 Datomic serv
by Ericson2314 6y ago
> From their start in 2013, Nubank has grown to 600 Clojure developers, running 2.5 million lines of Clojure code in 500 microservices on over 2000 Datomic servers.
Yikes that sounds like hell. Let's stop bragging about costs as a succeess store? Headcount? LoC? microservices? These are all to be minimized.
- nlitened 6y agoWhat if a typical bank usually has 20 times more LoC and 5x more developers?
- ilikehurdles 6y agoI really hope the hn trend of being reactionarily resistant against everything that isn't a postgresql monolith would stop.
- puredanger 6y agoEdward Wible, CTO at Nubank, actually makes this comparison to other banks (and how small it is) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cYYwxgaxB0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cYYwxgaxB0 (in the first few minutes).