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View submission: Reddit Chief Engineer Bethanye Blount Quits After Less Than Two Months On the Job
To be fair the code is all open source. And as an engineer myself, I could see delivering these promises as totally possible. Hell, anything is possible. But doing it at scale is really really hard.
Comment by Tinderblox at 14/07/2015 at 18:45 UTC
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Thanks for the serious response.
If you care to explain (I'm not an engineer/programmer) - what exactly IS the problem for doing it at scale at Reddit?
From what I understand she wasn't doing it alone, and 7 months doesn't *seem* to me to an unreasonable amount of time to update or implement code for a team when you're not worried about things like persistency and always-on connection (it's not a MMO, for example).