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[HN] Why WhatsApp Was Able to Support 50B Messages a Day with 32 Engineers
Submitted 1 year ago by irradiated@radiation.party [bot] to technews@radiation.party
https://newsletter.systemdesign.one/p/whatsapp-engineering
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
TL;DR: they kept it simple, didn’t allow feature creep, and took the time to think about the design and infra so that they could build it the right way the first time, and then actually followed through - an approach that is becoming dismayingly rare in tech these days.