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by ilrwbwrkhv 923 days ago
Same as Twitter before Musk.

Basically the meme of Javascript / React devs making everything complicated is amplified at really large scale in a lot of these companies and there is a lot of truth to this. "Frontend engineering" is basically a bullshit jobs program masquerading as real engineering work and costing company billions in time and money.

Like Spotify had this whole team dedicated to just the back and forward buttons. Whole team for 2 buttons.

I wish more companies tried to be like Valve who are more efficient than FAANG or any other tech company.
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cx201 923 days ago
Do you have the impression the Twitter web application has been improving since Musk took over?

Also, the Steam client has to be one of the most stagnant applications I ever had the pleasure of using, not sure that makes Valve super efficient.

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lightspot21 923 days ago
> Also, the Steam client has to be one of the most stagnant applications I ever had the pleasure of using, not sure that makes Valve super efficient.

If said software is fit for purpose already, why the need to induce frivolous change for the sake of changes themselves? If permanent stagnancy is bad, perpetual change is equally bad IMHO.

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JambalayaJim 923 days ago
In my experience Steam is slow and crashes often. I don’t generally care about UI updates (which Steam does actually have)
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Freedom2 923 days ago
Every popular webapp can be easily made with PHP and hosted in a bedroom, prove me wrong. We don't even need backend solutions like containers or kubernetes, companies have definitely wasted time investigating these technologies and putting money into them.
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ilrwbwrkhv 923 days ago
We definitely don't need containers or kubernetes. Netflix wasted so much time and energy with the whole microservices nonsense while pornhub serves more video in more locations purely using PHP servers.
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lillecarl 922 days ago
Kubernetes is supposed to make these things easier, and it very much can (and do for many). Containers are great, microservices on the other hand just seems like a way to decouple things so nothing can be verified AOT
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