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Re:WhatsApp scaled to 1B users with only 50 engineers by numair on Monday October 25, 2021 @01:49PM (#28990900)
I’m having one of those “why can’t there be 36 hours in a day” moments in life, but I’ve got to publish more about this very soon, so, it’s on the way.

When you combine the story of WhatsApp’s small team / high impact development with the remote work shift of the past few years, it seems that the next cycle (regardless of when/what it is) will be the first that isn’t centered on SF/SV/California. It’s interesting to think of how that’ll affect the psychology of the area.

Re:WhatsApp scaled to 1B users with only 50 engineers by 908B64B197 on Monday October 25, 2021 @03:58PM (#28992366)
> will be the first that isn’t centered on SF/SV/California.

I've heard this every 5 years for the last... 25 I think?

Still hasn't happened.

Re:WhatsApp scaled to 1B users with only 50 engineers by math-dev on Monday October 25, 2021 @04:22PM (#28992653)
Looking forward to reading it, plz let us know once done