There's a rule that when at scale every edge case is a real problem.
There's likely a whole org working on integrations with some oddball apps and devices. They likely make millions from this edge use case since Spotify operates at such scale. There's likely an org that makes small 0.1% improvements to server infra that saves millions. Every possible edge case bug is being hit at their scale. It's worth having extra engineers to tackle those.
Not to mention the shear business complexity of what they do. Billing, paying royalties, advertisers, legal compliance etc.
10k employees. For a huge company that operates across the globe. That seems small.
It's a hacker news joke. When dropbox was originally announced on hacker news, someone posted that its just rsync and they could implement it in a weekend.
There's likely a whole org working on integrations with some oddball apps and devices. They likely make millions from this edge use case since Spotify operates at such scale. There's likely an org that makes small 0.1% improvements to server infra that saves millions. Every possible edge case bug is being hit at their scale. It's worth having extra engineers to tackle those.
Not to mention the shear business complexity of what they do. Billing, paying royalties, advertisers, legal compliance etc.
10k employees. For a huge company that operates across the globe. That seems small.