Josh CollinsworthApr 16, 2024

I think we're focused on the wrong thing when we look at what tech works for a company like Amazon or Facebook or Netflix.

We should be looking at what tech works when you *don't* have a small army of staff engineers optimizing it. I want to know what I can scale *without* paying someone a half million dollar salary to do it.

There should be more case studies on things that don't have a billion-dollar company propping them up, humming along quietly on a cheap-ass VPS somewhere.

Show threadDavid Moles
@collinsworth @dsalo there was a time when Amazon and Twitter were scrappy startups that had genuinely figured out ways to move rapidly and build lightweight scalable systems without “enterprise” baggage, and that time was 20+ years ago
Apr 16, 2024 at 12:04pmWeb
Show threadCameron PurdyApr 23, 2024
@chronodm @collinsworth @dsalo This is the truth. Anyone who goes to work at one of these companies today might as well go to IBM or Oracle instead. Amazon and Google haven't been providing any opportunities in innovation for 99% of their employees for decades at this point.