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Re:Working on Complex Systems: What I Learned Working at Google by ungreased0675 on Thursday May 15, 2025 @09:33AM (#43994915)
It’s an infectious disease among developers. Some people would spend weeks making a simple landing page, and it would require at least 3 different cloud services.
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Re:Working on Complex Systems: What I Learned Working at Google by nottorp on Friday May 16, 2025 @07:57AM (#44004323)
I'll raise you 7. If i recall correctly. At my tiny workplace we once hired someone to do a simple industrial web site that wasn't likely to ever have more than 2000 users and 10k "entities" in the database.

7 is the number of different AWS services he managed to use for just a prototype.

We thanked him and rewrote the thing.

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