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A comment on Ask HN: What startsups made the best early-tech decisions?.

Re:Ask HN: What startsups made the best early-tech decisions? by giraffe_lady on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @02:03PM (#32322209)
Slack using php.

Most people recoil from it but their reasons were sound and they played well off its strengths and planned for and mitigated its weaknesses.

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Re:Ask HN: What startsups made the best early-tech decisions? by infamouscow on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @02:56PM (#32322828)
A lot can be said for having an engineering team with the experience and maturity to recognize both strengths and weaknesses of their technology choices.
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Re:Ask HN: What startsups made the best early-tech decisions? by actually_a_dog on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @04:11PM (#32323692)
What were their reasons?
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Re:Ask HN: What startsups made the best early-tech decisions? by giraffe_lady on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @04:45PM (#32324081)
They wrote a blog post about it but it's been a few years since I read it. IIRC it centered on the inherently stateless request model and how that interacts with the way they wanted to do concurrency.
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Re:Ask HN: What startsups made the best early-tech decisions? by kephasp on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @07:22PM (#32325586)
https://slack.engineering/taking-php-seriously/
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