How RedPlanetLabs reduced the cost of building Twitter at Twitter-scale by 100x

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How we reduced the cost of building Twitter at Twitter-scale by 100x
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They say they they wrote it in 10k lines, while twitter was 1M, but are they including all the packages they’re using (assuming that they are)? Like I can say I built a website with 100 lines, but in reality if you compile all the packages I’m using it’s a shit ton more than that.

Just a lazy thought out loud. Idk I’m probably being dumb

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

Not a package but a service or framework dependency:

Our implementation is built on top of a new platform called Rama that we at Red Planet Labs have developed over the past 10 years. This is the first time we’re talking about Rama publicly. Rama unifies computation and storage into a coherent model capable of building end-to-end backends at any scale in 100x less code than otherwise.