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I think the lesson is, avoid rewrites and don’t break apart your monorepo; have teams improve the platform while your product engineers go full-steam ahead. Com
by ozzydave 3y ago
I think the lesson is, avoid rewrites and don’t break apart your monorepo; have teams improve the platform while your product engineers go full-steam ahead. Compare with Twitter which spent 2 years in the woods rewriting to Java while FB kept growing, giant ball of PHP and all.
- highwaylights 3y agoYou’re getting downvoted for this, but you’re not wrong. Just keep moving forward unless the sky is falling is 100% the lesson to be learned here.
- esafak 3y agoIn the worst case, you'll fail to scale due to technical shortcomings like Friendster and become forgotten while later entrants like Facebook eat your lunch. There was a time when "being web scale" was a real concern. That's one reason companies like Google make such a big deal about it in their technical interviews. Now most of the hard work has been done and exposed as services so today even an untrained teenager can stand up a web-scale service.