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WhatsApp once had just 50 engineers with 900M users: https://www.wired.com/2015/09/whatsapp-serves-900-million-us...


As far as I know Telegram has around the same number of engineers even today, handling around the same size userbase.


Today, Telegram serves around 1B users and is run by only 30 engineers: https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/1djposn/...


And support is almost non-existent


On par with Google's, then.


That ethos runs through everything the WA team does. I learned a bit about it when I was at fb and I was beyond impressed by how few servers WA used for its core infrastructure. It's a really well engineered product.


What more do you need?

That's still plenty of people if you got a few thousand people at AWS/Azure or in this case Meta's in-house cloud making sure your service is running and scaling as it should.




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