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Valid or not you do hit upon something I'm genuinely curious about. What do developers for something like twitter even do? Twitter does one very specific thing

Valid or not you do hit upon something I'm genuinely curious about. What do developers for something like twitter even do? Twitter does one very specific thing, and it doesn't look like it has changed its goal much over the past 10 years, so what is it they're trying to develop so rapidly they need hundreds (thousands?) of developers.

rtatay 4y ago
I have this same question!
fendy3002 4y ago
My guess is for back-office or moderation-related told, as well as algorithm fine tuning. Though I think the number of developers are still too high.
globalise83 4y ago
The legacy border-radius assumptions regarding the "Set Up Profile" button may be no longer valid and need to be deeply investigated. We are therefore setting up a cross-functional taskforce to tackle this issue. MVP is due one year from now.
meken 4y ago
Not a direct answer to your question, but it reminds me of the first chapter from The Mythical Man Month > One occasionally reads newspaper accounts of how two programmers in a remodeled garage have built an important program that surpasses the best efforts of large teams. And every programmer is prepared to believe such tales, for he knows that he could build any program much faster than the 1000 statements/year reported for industrial teams. Why then have not all industrial programming teams been replaced by dedicated garage duos? One must look at what is being produced. In the [attached figure] is a program. It is complete in itself, ready to be run by the author on the system on which it was developed. That is the thing commonly produced in garages… He then goes on to describe how you can take a program and make it a programming product (by generalizing it, adding testing, documentation, maintenence) and a programming system (requiring interfaces and integration with the rest of the system)

rtatay 4y ago

I have this same question!

fendy3002 4y ago

My guess is for back-office or moderation-related told, as well as algorithm fine tuning. Though I think the number of developers are still too high.

globalise83 4y ago

The legacy border-radius assumptions regarding the "Set Up Profile" button may be no longer valid and need to be deeply investigated. We are therefore setting up a cross-functional taskforce to tackle this issue. MVP is due one year from now.

meken 4y ago

Not a direct answer to your question, but it reminds me of the first chapter from The Mythical Man Month > One occasionally reads newspaper accounts of how two programmers in a remodeled garage have built an important program that surpasses the best efforts of large teams. And every programmer is prepared to believe such tales, for he knows that he could build any program much faster than the 1000 statements/year reported for industrial teams. Why then have not all industrial programming teams been replaced by dedicated garage duos? One must look at what is being produced. In the [attached figure] is a program. It is complete in itself, ready to be run by the author on the system on which it was developed. That is the thing commonly produced in garages… He then goes on to describe how you can take a program and make it a programming product (by generalizing it, adding testing, documentation, maintenence) and a programming system (requiring interfaces and integration with the rest of the system)