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		snovv_crash on Oct 25, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: WhatsApp scaled to 1B users with only 50 engineers This then also means a well defined server API without undocumented behaviour that individual implementations depend on. I stand by my assertion that the good scaling and separable builds is a sign of good architecture.

vadfa on Oct 25, 2021 [–]

Isn't a non-leaky abstraction a given too?

All these requirements are like saying "having a good experience using this app requires an app that doesn't crash all the time". Well, duh?

snovv_crash on Oct 30, 2021 | [–]

Life would be a lot easier if good engineering practices everywhere were a given.

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