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Re:Shopify to lay off 10% of workers in broad shake-up by ryanbrunner on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @12:34PM (#32240515)
Needing to have a big team so that you can refactor into microservices, which you need because you have such a big team is a very "the bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the bureaucracy" sort of thing.
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Re:Shopify to lay off 10% of workers in broad shake-up by echelon on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @12:40PM (#32240611)
It's a business expanding to fill the market sort of thing.

The people on those teams undoubtedly have plenty to work on.

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