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Re:Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus ... by jacklionheart on Wednesday February 19, 2014 @07:09PM (#7267694)
I have trouble imagining that infrastructure supporting 400M users "runs itself".
Re:Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus ... by encoderer on Wednesday February 19, 2014 @08:54PM (#7268260)
Services with big fan-out effects can get very expensive to run. But I do believe product simplicity can lead to code and infrastructure simplicity which gets as close as you can in this industry to "runs itself."