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 threadThomas DepierreApr 16, 2024

@collinsworth There are. Ask the erlang/elixir folks. We have tales.

I can tell you the 99% result if you want. It gets killed. Because it does not fit the growth view of the world. And not spending money faster is a death sentence for a VC startup.

Also means managers cannot easily use metrics proxy, because you cannot ignore the complexity.

The biggest recent case is Bleacher Report

Show threadMagnus Ahltorp
@Di4na @collinsworth Ericsson is definitely a billion-dollar company. Of course you could debate whether they “propped up” erlang or treated it like shit.
Apr 16, 2024 at 6:57pmWeb