How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers

Re:How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engi... by rhuru on Saturday September 16, 2023 @04:30AM (#37533011)

Musk's actions have certainly damaged Twitter and its engineering. When you set the house on fire of course some termites will get killed but then you might also kill some babies and the family dog.

A lot of tech companies have bloat in the form of AI ethics people, DEI people and so on. They need to go. But Musk probably hurt twitter a lot in short term by firing a lot of engineers and making it a place that made people unhappy.

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Re:How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engi... by csomar on Saturday September 16, 2023 @04:33AM (#37533031)

> AI ethics people

These do actually have a proper job. They do ethics laundering for the tech companies and are very valuable.

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Re:How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engi... by mk89 on Saturday September 16, 2023 @05:17AM (#37533250)

He is squeezing everything as much as he can.

Introduced failing ideas that made him ridiculous world wide, ... to finally hire a CEO.

And now he is using the platform to influence elections and events - free for all. Sure.

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Re:How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engi... by dingdong33 on Saturday September 16, 2023 @07:04AM (#37533722)

Our company has a position like a DEI director, and honestly, it baffles me. All they seem to do is push what some might call 'leftist woke propaganda' in their never-ending meetings, and I question whether our company's resources should be invested in that.

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Re:How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engi... by agentgumshoe on Saturday September 16, 2023 @07:27AM (#37533848)

It's just 'brand.' Companies don't generally give two stuffs about their staff, as you find out when anything like unions or HR complaints come up.

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Re:How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engi... by esperent on Saturday September 16, 2023 @07:18AM (#37533807)

Could you give some concrete examples from this DEI director of the kind of things you're calling 'leftist woke propaganda'?

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Re:How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engi... by rhuru on Thursday September 21, 2023 @05:12AM (#37595139)

I am not OP but one of the things I have seen these people do is to insist on removing words like "nitty gritty" from our developer documentation by calling it racist.

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Re:How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engi... by bornfreddy on Saturday September 16, 2023 @07:09AM (#37533751)

TIL: DEI == Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (if anyone else didn't know).

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Re:How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engi... by rhuru on Thursday September 21, 2023 @05:11AM (#37595124)

Ignorance is bliss. If you do not know what DEI is it is a bit like not knowing how to be an overweight. You are better off not knowing it.

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