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> A junior dev could build a working twitter clone in a couple weeks; tech was never Twitter's moat. Aren't we over saying things like that? That's Dunning-Kru
by mariusor 3y ago
> A junior dev could build a working twitter clone in a couple weeks; tech was never Twitter's moat.
Aren't we over saying things like that? That's Dunning-Krueger speak. The bits that you see as a user are just the tip of the iceberg required to support hundreds of thousands of tweets per minute that Twitter currently is capable of.
- vxNsr 3y agohe's not entirely wrong though, there's an online bootcamp dedicated to literally doing this, using AWS as the backend, might take more than a few weeks but the point is that until you start to worry about web-scale a jr dev could do the implementation of front-end/back-end in a month or two.
- liorben-david 3y agoYa you're right, my junior dev comment was stupid. I think I stand by the tech not being the significant moat here.