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Comment on: The dead economy theory
> Right, but it's already doing that, and runs just fine, from what I understand. The developers don't have to sit there pounding the enter key on their keyboards over and over all day to keep the messages flowing.> Is the user count and message rate growing so quickly that people are constantly needing to make architectural changes and performance improvements in order to keep it scaling up? Does adding new capacity need constant human intervention?> Or are they adding new crazy features all the time that are genuinely challenging to implement?> As a software developer who has worked on big d