Optimizing for 1M concurrent users, paying down tech debt, refactoring, and testing are all things that engineers love to cite that will somehow make everything better. The customer won't feel a single one.
Spotify uses 42 different versions of jquery (among a dozen other libraries) and it's working just fine (with >1M concurrent users).
Even electron! That crap is so heavy, its (lack of) performance is notable. But! Many billion-dollar companies built on its back.
I laughed when an exec at Evernote told me that every year they go to MIT to try to recruit the top 1% of cs grads. What a waste of talent.
Optimizing for 1M concurrent users, paying down tech debt, refactoring, and testing are all things that engineers love to cite that will somehow make everything better. The customer won't feel a single one.
Spotify uses 42 different versions of jquery (among a dozen other libraries) and it's working just fine (with >1M concurrent users).
Even electron! That crap is so heavy, its (lack of) performance is notable. But! Many billion-dollar companies built on its back.
I laughed when an exec at Evernote told me that every year they go to MIT to try to recruit the top 1% of cs grads. What a waste of talent.