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Re:WhatsApp scaled to 1B users with only 50 engineers by snovv_crash on Monday October 25, 2021 @09:02AM (#28987288)
This then also means a well defined server API without undocumented behaviour that individual implementations depend on. I stand by my assertion that the good scaling and separable builds is a sign of good architecture.
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Re:WhatsApp scaled to 1B users with only 50 engineers by vadfa on Monday October 25, 2021 @09:28AM (#28987523)
Isn't a non-leaky abstraction a given too?

All these requirements are like saying "having a good experience using this app requires an app that doesn't crash all the time". Well, duh?

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Re:WhatsApp scaled to 1B users with only 50 engineers by snovv_crash on Saturday October 30, 2021 @05:49PM (#29052566)
Life would be a lot easier if good engineering practices everywhere were a given.
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