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Re:WhatsApp scaled to 1B users with only 50 engineers by Scoundreller on Monday October 25, 2021 @03:23PM (#28991976)
Like, 5 engineers never huddled together to figure out how to solve a problem?
Re:WhatsApp scaled to 1B users with only 50 engineers by vb6sp6 on Monday October 25, 2021 @04:13PM (#28992554)
Getting together with your peers to discuss a problem is entirely different than being called into a meeting with someone who can only use a iPad to evaluate progress on things they cant understand while several other people sit idle waiting for their turn.
Re:WhatsApp scaled to 1B users with only 50 engineers by papito on Monday October 25, 2021 @04:41PM (#28992856)
There is no need to turn this into an argument by suggesting that somehow WhatsApp banned its engineers from getting together. That never happens, ever. We are obviously discussing scheduled meetings and scrums.

By the way, this is mentioned here: https://www.wired.com/2015/09/whatsapp-serves-900-million-us...