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Ask HN: What startsups made the best early-tech decisions?
I've always been impressed by Discord's engineering culture and think they made most of the right decisions regarding their tech stack.
What other startups got their tech stack right?
- dpeck 4y agoWhatsApp. Rick Reed’s “That’s Billion with a B” presentation is a good glimpse into their own view of it https://youtu.be/c12cYAUTXXs https://youtu.be/c12cYAUTXXs
- ayushgp 4y agoZerodha. They are the biggest stock broker in India with a team of less than 40 people. Check out their tech blog for their tech philosophy: https://zerodha.tech/blog/hello-world/ https://zerodha.tech/blog/hello-world/ Also, WhatsApp with their choice of Erlang. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wired.com/2015/09/whatsapp-serves-900-million-users-50-engineers/amp https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wired.com/2015/09/whatsapp-...
- atmosx 4y agoThe zerodha post is ... hard to believe. Self managed _everything_ and one devops engineer, no SREs? Who's managing the self-hosted PostgreSQL instances with the hundreds of billions or rows of _financial_ data?
- giraffe_lady 4y agoSlack using php. Most people recoil from it but their reasons were sound and they played well off its strengths and planned for and mitigated its weaknesses.
- infamouscow 4y agoA lot can be said for having an engineering team with the experience and maturity to recognize both strengths and weaknesses of their technology choices.
- actually_a_dog 4y agoWhat were their reasons?
- giraffe_lady 4y agoThey wrote a blog post about it but it's been a few years since I read it. IIRC it centered on the inherently stateless request model and how that interacts with the way they wanted to do concurrency.
- kephasp 4y agohttps://slack.engineering/taking-php-seriously/ https://slack.engineering/taking-php-seriously/
- dominotw 4y agoEarly 2010 startups like github, groupon, shopify, gitlab for using Ruby on Rails to get off the ground and scale.