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chatman on Oct 25, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: WhatsApp scaled to 1B users with only 50 engineers

This is misleading. Likely, those 50 engineers were standing on the shoulders of the giants, i.e. those open source maintainers who build wonderful value for everyone out there.

ratww on Oct 25, 2021 [–]

Does this really matter? Companies with 100, 500, 1000, 5000, etc employees often stand exactly in the same position and use the same kinds of tools.

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