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I believe even at FAANG-like companies, only a lucky minority is involved at that level of scale. Most developers just use the available infrastructure and tool
by dondraper36 1y ago
I believe even at FAANG-like companies, only a lucky minority is involved at that level of scale. Most developers just use the available infrastructure and tools without working on the creation of S3 or BigTable.
- dmurray 1y agoThis famous blog post [0] suggests that the default behaviour at Google at least is for everything to deal with massive scale. Doesn't mean everyone is involved in creating massive-scale infrastructure like S3 or BigTable, but it does mean using that kind of infrastructure from the start [0] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/koGbEwgbfst2wCbzG/i-don-t-know-how-to-count-that-low https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/koGbEwgbfst2wCbzG/i-don-t-kn...