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

5 heros on vacation for 7 days, and coming back and finishing the work in next 5 days is more comfortable position than 50 clueless engineers claiming work will be over in 4 days.

leeoniya on Oct 25, 2021 [–]

hmm, not sure how many customers would be okay with 7 days of downtime, for instance.

bmeski on Oct 25, 2021 | [–]

System has less of a chance of going down if you have fewer noobs pushing to master all day.

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