Re:How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engi...
by ben_w on Saturday September 16, 2023 @05:41AM
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> Look how X has diminished in quality as Elon started slashing team sizes.
True but different: even ignoring how many of them were customer support and moderation, once the tech stack gets complex, you can't just snap your fingers and act like it's a simpler stack, not even if a fresh 3-good-graduates team can reach feature parity with your now-1000-person team, when they've had 6 months from `git init` and you've been at it since they were in Kindergarten.
True but different: even ignoring how many of them were customer support and moderation, once the tech stack gets complex, you can't just snap your fingers and act like it's a simpler stack, not even if a fresh 3-good-graduates team can reach feature parity with your now-1000-person team, when they've had 6 months from `git init` and you've been at it since they were in Kindergarten.