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Paul Dix

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The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

So the problem is if every engineer can do that in a brief amount of time, then again, you have this problem of, OK, it's too easy to produce this stuff.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

And who's going to review it?

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

And who's going to like?

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

I always feel like the 37 Signals model of like, OK, whenever we do a feature, we put two people on it.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

I think that's almost like the way to go.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

It's like you have two humans on something.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

They don't necessarily need to pair program or whatever.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

But then you actually limit the scope of, OK,

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

You have somebody who can review your stuff closely.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

And again, like we don't, our engineering team doesn't have that.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

The thing is we have a bunch of different engineering teams with different responsibilities, right?

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

Some of them are,

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

There's an engineering team that supports V1 of the product, the hosted version and the on-prem version.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

There's an engineering team that supports V2.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

There's an engineering team that supports the iteration of V3 that we currently have hosted.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

There's an engineering team building this new version of V3 that we have as an on-prem product and also hosted in AWS.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

It's a time stream for InfluxDB.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

It's actually like an AWS first-party product.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

So every team is like kind of a little bit different in terms of what the scope of their responsibilities are and what they care about.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

I think, I think Bezos had potentially a larger team in mind, like up to like eight or 10.