Does it take a genius to figure out how to build twitch? It’s a modern crud app with video streaming.
This is a far different statement than "You can build something and compete with Steam in a couple of years". Most of the really hard problems are not technical. Success ain't gonna happen without a bunch of pain, sweat, and strategic stumbles on the part of the competition.
Was Twitch built in 10 years, or over just a few?
Steam was built since I was in FUCKING high school. Im old now, well over 30.
Apples, and blueberries.
Bluebarry, Drewbarry, tomato, ToMaHtoH.
Fuck their stupid ass streaming code, it’s a giant crud app, only their devops team can take credit for scaling, everyone else is not worth a shit, sorry, thats life, I gotta Leetcode too, and ur code isn’t worth me reading it, leaked or not).
The thing I learned most from this leak is that the technology side plays very little part in the business being successful or not.
It's just a crud app - why do they need more than 10 employees?
Building and maintaining infrastructure simply takes a lot of people, time, relationships and whatnot.
They get good at it over time which I guess could consider some secret sauce but there isn't like some secret code that makes the whole thing way better that now you'll see tons of competitors.
That doesn't stop CV-hungry engineers from finding ways to overcomplicate it.
(I do agree with you on this topic in general)
"Building apps is easy as long as you don't have millions of users. For that you have to actually think about bottlenecks, the larger architecture etc."
(I agree with that)
What I wanted to express is that lots of engineers I personally know instead say
"Building apps involves thinking about every bottleneck in advance and optimizing for every possible user scenario and a global user base, regardless if the number of users is only ~100."
I would advocate the exact opposite. If you need to scale to X users focus on making a great platform for X users, even if it’s only 100. If you try to over-engineer instead you’ll prematurely optimize and will make poor decisions that’ll come back to bite you when you actually DO need the scale and the requirements change.
Twitch is a full-featured, very mature application with many moving parts outside of just the video streaming, and building all those parts took an incredible amount of time and effort.
They hit.
It’s sort of like we all hold Golden dice, so we marveled, by our own eyes, at the gold.
Dealer: You rolling those?
Us: no, it’s gold.
They fucking risked it. It’s not a engineering feat, we’re all a bunch of pussies.
Twitch is easiest site to build, you might as well show me a todo app (which will be sieged and dismantled), scale is solved, we will eat your applications, the barbarians.
Rome falls.
I personally don't give a single fuck but I can see the appeal for some people.
It's a bit like the great pyramids, it's just a big pile of rocks but we'd be really interested in knowing exactly how the made these big piles