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Re:Spotify to axe 1,500 workers to save costs by raverbashing on Monday December 04, 2023 @05:15AM (#38515584)
> 5-6 for the backend, 3-4 DevOps, maybe some more for the various frontends... say, 20?

At least 10x that, easily. In a very optimistic scenario.

The back-office part is much bigger than people think (bands management, content management, rights management, recommendations, etc).

Then you have the services like Auth, streaming, encoding, managing CDNs, caching, etc.

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