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> Large scale distributed systems aren't that simple.

Nobody's debating that. If it weren't a "large scale distributed system" then the debate would be about 3 employees vs. 10. The core experience without scale could be made by a single engineer.

But running a service like Twitter doesn't require 4,000 employees, even at scale. Facebook has "only" twice as many employees, despite a 10x more complicated product and 12x as much revenue.



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