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How RedPlanetLabs reduced the cost of building Twitter at Twitter-scale by 100x
(blog.redplanetlabs.com)
this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2023
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They say they they wrote it in 10k lines, while twitter was 1M, but are they including all the packages they’re using (assuming that they are)? Like I can say I built a website with 100 lines, but in reality if you compile all the packages I’m using it’s a shit ton more than that.
Just a lazy thought out loud. Idk I’m probably being dumb
Not dumb at all and it's kinda annoying when people brag about LoC.
The second bullet point explains it. The whole point is not about building a Twitter clone, it's about how the framework they are selling enables building highly-scalable apps with much less code required.
So, in this case, the LoC really is the point
Yeah, BRB, moving 90% of my codebase into an "external" library
My app was written in one line: yarn run dev.
Not a package but a service or framework dependency: