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Jensson on Oct 25, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: WhatsApp scaled to 1B users with only 50 engineers

Whatsapp used bare metal servers. It isn't hard to do, just that people no longer learn to do it.

> Ten years or longer ago I suspect the story would be different

Whatsapp was built 12 years ago.

steve_adams_86 on Oct 25, 2021 [–]

I assumed they did their largest scale ups more recently, though. I could be wrong!

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