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> it has quickly expanded out it's engineering team hugely But makes little sense (as a developer/engineer myself) to think that growth in users, requires a to
by bjarneh 5y ago
> it has quickly expanded out it's engineering team hugely
But makes little sense (as a developer/engineer myself) to think that growth in users, requires a ton of new developers/engineers. We are not tattoo artists, our job can scale indefinitely if set up properly, i.e. all you should need to scale further (to 1BN or 7BN) should be enough money to buy more hardware; which WhatsApp/Facebook clearly has.
- Closi 5y agoI think that makes sense if the application doesn’t need to also grow much functionally during the expansion, but I believe the more common pattern is more users = more functionality to manage those users, support teams, global legal compliance and accommodate more niche phone systems = more engineers.
- macintux 5y agoYou're assuming that their use case & technology stack & application scale cleanly horizontally and they're not spending all their time fighting fires. True in this instance, but far from a universal truth.