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8 Reasons Why WhatsApp Was Able to Support 50 Billion Messages a Day With Only 32 Engineers (newsletter.systemdesign.one)
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[โ€“] T156@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like how "Don't reinvent the wheel" is almost immediately followed by "they rewrote some of the core components to fit their needs". Isn't that basically reinventing the wheel with a few extra steps?

[โ€“] topinambour_rex@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

More a redesign the wheel.