Snap is laying off about 100 engineers

Re:Snap is laying off about 100 engineers by guy_c on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @07:41PM (#16541312)

Also as a codebase grows the complexity grows. Adding or changing code has a lot more impact and is much harder.

If I remember correctly Shopify is something like 400k lines of Ruby on Rails code and 400 developers (i.e. one developer per 1000 LOC). Whereas I guess a 5k LOC codebase could be handled by a single developer.

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Re:Snap is laying off about 100 engineers by mattmanser on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @08:25PM (#16541526)

Ooooo, not 1000 LOC.

That's a couple of weeks work.

EDIT: I'm being flippant, but to me a 400k code base is something 2 devs can put out in a few years. I'm pretty certain the present main code base I'm working on must be close to 400k and it's only ever had 2 devs working on it at any one time.

And we're always adding massive chunks of new functionality, and are regularly integrating with new third parties. And we total overhauled it last year to support i18n and it's now being regularly used in 3 languages and we can add more in literally a couple of days.

Ok it only handles hundreds of thousands of users, but I expect it to be millions within a couple of years and we're not even trying to load balance or anything yet.

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Re:Snap is laying off about 100 engineers by tigershark on Thursday March 08, 2018 @03:14AM (#16543081)

5k LOC is well in the realm of a toy project. 400k LOC can easily be handled by an handful of people and with some effort by a single very capable engineer.

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