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Re:Snap is laying off about 100 engineers by tangue on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @04:44PM (#16540205)
Added to that : Snap is running on Google App Engine which closes the door for certain kind of jobs
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Re:Snap is laying off about 100 engineers by sjg007 on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @06:26PM (#16540949)
In the long run building their own datacenter and backend would save money.
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Re:Snap is laying off about 100 engineers by kgilpin on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @10:05PM (#16541973)
They are not paying list price for App Engine.
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Re:Snap is laying off about 100 engineers by sjg007 on Thursday March 08, 2018 @10:40AM (#16544972)
Yes but they aren't paying at cost either.
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