I think Startups doing impressive things at scale will help with this. For example, Whatsapp serving 500M people with code written/maintained by <50 engineers i

I think Startups doing impressive things at scale will help with this. For example, Whatsapp serving 500M people with code written/maintained by <50 engineers is an impressive story. What did they do differently? The post-hoc stories about success rarely discuss the leverage achieved due to the technology choices.