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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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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