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Re:How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engi... by gumballindie on Saturday September 16, 2023 @04:43AM (#37533080)
> 3 man job is 80-100 hours a week per for months to years.

Is it though? Small, lean, teams have fewer processes, less distractions, better communication, and more flexibility in what they can do. I've been in such teams and built such scalable systems and there was nothing 80-100 hours about it. It turned worse once the company was acquired and management and "specilised" workers were brought in.

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