There is no such thing as a magically built system that scales without continued work.
All the tools that make it remotely possible for smaller developers to scale to moderate (not big, let alone massive) scale are built by big companies like Google. You can’t just hand wave away the investment because some of it trickles down.
There will always be maintenance. That doesn’t even insinuate code writing. You don’t need to constantly rewrite the application as it scales up, that just insinuates bad code. And I highly doubt Google is paying their software developers as well as they are, only to get code that doesn’t scale.
As I said, a properly written application, which would inherently take scaling into account to be considered “properly written” would scale without constant need to rewrite code.
Ignoring that, do you think they are still rewriting parts of the application as maintenance? Going on 12 years and they are still tweaking the original code to support new users? Of course they aren’t, that’s insane.
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There is no such thing as a magically built system that scales without continued work.
All the tools that make it remotely possible for smaller developers to scale to moderate (not big, let alone massive) scale are built by big companies like Google. You can’t just hand wave away the investment because some of it trickles down.
And yes, literally every line of code is R&D.
There will always be maintenance. That doesn’t even insinuate code writing. You don’t need to constantly rewrite the application as it scales up, that just insinuates bad code. And I highly doubt Google is paying their software developers as well as they are, only to get code that doesn’t scale.
As I said, a properly written application, which would inherently take scaling into account to be considered “properly written” would scale without constant need to rewrite code.
Ignoring that, do you think they are still rewriting parts of the application as maintenance? Going on 12 years and they are still tweaking the original code to support new users? Of course they aren’t, that’s insane.