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They are the one example of messaging done right on the client side. And it maddens me that their whole team, including ops and backend is like 50 people. At
by samat 5y ago
They are the one example of messaging done right on the client side.
And it maddens me that their whole team, including ops and backend is like 50 people.
At the same time, they used some pretty unconventional ways to find brilliant people. For example, for iOS and Mac and android apps, they simply held a contest for the best open source app fitting succinct and reasonable requirements. The winner got sizable prize and place on the dev team.
Then they released that app as a Telegram X and then gradually sunset the older app.
Pretty neat on multiple fronts.
- voidfunc 5y agoYep Telegram the app is perhaps one of the best pieces of software I have used. It really shows what a good team can pull off.
- ratww 5y ago> And it maddens me that their whole team, including ops and backend is like 50 people. But that's how they get so much accomplished. Fred Brooks was correct in 1975 and is still right in 2021. Throwing headcount at a problem only delays it.
- marcosdumay 5y ago> and is still right in 2021 That's a huge understatement. When development tools improve and people get more productive, that observation gets more and more correct. Thus, he is much more correct now than he was in 1975. And he was pretty much right by that time.