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Re:Mark Zuckerberg on Messenger (2013) by EGreg on Saturday May 21, 2022 @11:20PM (#31464602)
Our of curiosity, what was so hard for FB to have reliability, performance… and what exactly is pushability?

Is it because the whatsapp dudes used Erlang?

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg on Messenger (2013) by bryan_w on Sunday May 22, 2022 @12:03AM (#31464789)
When you have 1000+ cooks in the kitchen, all being judged by how many new features they can pump out, just doing:

import fbcorelibs;

Creates a 250+mb ios/Android binary that bump against app store limits

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg on Messenger (2013) by bcit-cst on Sunday May 22, 2022 @12:59PM (#31470292)
yeah I was thinking the same thing? Maybe its something to do with CD/CI. being able to push changes to end users fast ?
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