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I'm not at all sure they would be this successful if they'd tried to build on the JVM right from the start using the technologies available at the time. I'm no
by nupark2 15y ago
I'm not at all sure they would be this successful if they'd tried to build on the JVM right from the start using the technologies available at the time.
I'm not sure why you think that, or why you think Twiiter had a 'grow' vs 'evolve' strategy. Their approach seemed not nearly so self-aware, and resulted in serious, core deficiencies that required considerable time and expense to correct. From an external position, it very much did not look like a rational considered approach to solving he problem through 'evolution'.
- raganwald 15y agoI never suggested they were self-aware, only that they evolved. Therefore, I do not suggest that they decided anything. All evolution strategies involve serious, core deficiencies, that's the trade-off, that's why it isn't 100% obviously better to evolve than to grow. But I do suggest that evolution--however it came about at Twitter HQ--has worked out for them.
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