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		sligor on Dec 4, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Spotify will reduce total headcount by approximate... > I can't imagine the whole thing can't be done with between 30 to 50 engineers in total. How WhatsApp served 1 billion users with only 50 engineers. https://blog.quastor.org/p/whatsapp-scaled-1-billion-users-5... edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28985169

em500 on Dec 4, 2023 [–]

At the time WhatsApp was only forwarding messages from user to user. They didn't deal with different contracts and license deals in 180 countries. Nowadays they have a lot more country specific regulations to deal with, and also a much higher headcount.

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