How Facebook could have built Threads 30X faster & cheaper
Garry Tan Garry Tan
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 Published On Aug 22, 2023

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What if I told you they could have made Threads with one engineer and under 10,000 lines of code, at least 30X faster and cheaper?

If they were using Rama by Red Planet Labs, they could have. This new data backend platform just dropped this week, and I think it’s one of the most important developments in software engineering in decades.

0:00 My startup wouldn't have died
1:18 Don’t repeat yourself
2:50 200X less person hours with autoscaling
4:38 How it actually works

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