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by thephyber 3933 days ago
I'd wager that much of their workforce is engineering and integration support, in addition to the redundancy they purchased by buying companies like BrainTree.

Additionally, PayPal owns a massive amount of legacy code and APIs. There are plenty of con talks where PayPal describes how they were mired down in bureaucracy when updating a single line of code in Java (JSP) but managed to flip that overhead on its head by running a NodeJS stack on top of the JSP stack (and in some places replacing it).