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TikTok found all of those people very quickly, they famously don't use a public cloud provider. Infra isn't magic.
by shiftpgdn 3y ago
TikTok found all of those people very quickly, they famously don't use a public cloud provider. Infra isn't magic.
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- hiddencost 3y agoTikTok has 100k employees and shoes shits money.
- dijit 3y agoNot sure what "shoes shits money" means, but contextually they had $9.9B in revenue for the year 2022 and an operational expenditure of $9.4B. I believe this means they generated $500m for bytedance, but I can't find a good citation, bytedance itself generated $6B in profits though for the fiscal year 2022 https://www.statista.com/statistics/1342785/bytedance-key-quarterly-financial-figures/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1342785/bytedance-key-qu...
- cbozeman 3y ago> Infra isn't magic. No, but you're definitely dealing with the Arthur C. Clarke quote: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”.