Dan Luu • 10/3/2016

I could do that in a weekend!

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This article refutes the common claim 'I could build that in a weekend' often directed at large tech companies. Using Google Search as a primary example, it details the immense, non-trivial challenges of indexing trillions of pages, achieving real-time performance, and handling ranking at a global scale, arguing this justifies the need for hundreds or thousands of engineers.

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#search-engines #software complexity #large scale systems
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