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Telegram says it has 'about 30 engineers'; security experts say that's a red flag (techcrunch.com)

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[–] dandi8@fedia.io 195 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (21 children)

There are good reasons to dislike Telegram, but having "just" 30 engineers is not one of them. Software development is not a chair factory, more people does not equal more or better quality work as much as 9 women won't give birth to a baby in a month.

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Galperin told TechCrunch. “‘Thirty engineers’ means that there is no one to fight legal requests, there is no infrastructure for dealing with abuse and content moderation issues.”

I don't think fighting legal requests and content moderation is an engineer's job. However, the article can't seem to get it straight whether it's 30 engineers, or 30 staff overall. In the latter case, the context changes dramatically and I don't have the knowledge to tell if 30 staff is enough to deal with legal issues. I would imagine that Telegram would need a small army of lawyers and content moderators for that. Again, not engineers, though.

[–] Badeendje@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (11 children)

30 engineers. You lose half that to people managing the infrastructure alone. That leaves 15 code monkeys. Of 2 are dedicated to deployment and 3 to setting up unit tests (that's not many btw) you are left with 10 people. If say for a global platform that's not many at all.

[–] ilega_dh@feddit.nl 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

15 engineers for managing infrastructure?? Are they setting up servers by hand?

[–] Badeendje@lemmy.world -3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I would not want you as my boss, that's for sure.

Try covering a 24/7 global service window. I'd think this is on the low end.

And you als need full infra stack knowledge: Server, database, Network, connectivity.

And probably some of these schmucks will get stuck managing the corporate environment too.

[–] dandi8@fedia.io 6 points 1 month ago

This comment smells of outdated software development practices.

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