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> Instagram? Monolith. 12 people when sold to Facebook. So your metric for succes is acquisition size, not good software design?

• papito 5y ago
  Companies sell working product and large, active user bases - not "good software design", a metric subjective at best. What you may call good design, I may call "unnecessary and wasteful over-engineering".
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  • beckman466 5y ago
    Yes, I was planning to edit my comment to add a better description of what I meant (and move from writing on mobile, to typing on my computer), but then I completely forgot about it. So yes, agreed: 'good software' is absolutely subjective. My point about 'good software' was about creating non-bloated, modular software - software that is well documented and easy for others to collaborate on, contribute to, or take over.