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Re:Report: WeWork expected to cut 500 tech roles by darawk on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @08:45PM (#21198843)
I have always wondered this too. On the surface, Twitter doesn't seem like a very elaborate service. I'm sure there's serious thorny scaling problems to deal with. But how many engineers does that really take?
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Re:Report: WeWork expected to cut 500 tech roles by olivermarks on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @08:56PM (#21198922)
Remember the fail whale? Scaling is hard.
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Re:Report: WeWork expected to cut 500 tech roles by kevin_thibedeau on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @09:24PM (#21199083)
It's hard when you build a global business on a scripting language.
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