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I read somewhere that there are different levels of "tech" company. A truly tech company would work without any human intervention for multiple days without bre
by mlboss 6y ago
I read somewhere that there are different levels of "tech" company. A truly tech company would work without any human intervention for multiple days without breakdown. A non-tech company involves human in every tasks required for work. Most of the companies fall somewhere in between.
Ride services/Food delivery company cannot function without humans.
- neolog 6y agoAre there any companies that work for days without human intervention?
- GavinMcG 6y agoOnline digital content, like paid courses or an author selling their own books, may come close once a sufficient amount of marketing material is out there. Email funnels can be automated, blog posts can be scheduled (and recycled), payment gateways and whatnot can handle the actual transactions. Simple apps and games don't necessarily need to keep getting better all the time; a successful one could likely coast for some time without needing much intervention.
- mritchie712 6y agoBlogs for sure
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- nhumrich 6y agogoogle search, netflix, facebook, gmail, roomba, apple, microsoft, slack, youtube, AWS, wordpress, github, jira, the list goes on
- Tarq0n 6y agoI'm not convinced any of those would last even hours without an army of SRE's holding them together.
- nojvek 6y agoThey all have support. True. However at my gig at my previous Job I have gone many opslead shifts without incidents. In fact most incidents were because someone added something new. During code freeze, we coasted multiple weeks without incidents. SREs job is exactly this. Prevent future incidents. Prevention is much cheaper than cures (mostly)
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- boh 6y agoSo I guess SpaceX, Tesla, Intel, Apple aren't tech companies.
- yihsiu 6y agoAgree with this rhetorical question. What mlboss said should just be "automated company" not necessary a tech company. With that definition, it's also unreasonable to me that 100 years ago, there wasn't any tech company