There will always be maintenance. That doesn’t even insinuate code writing. You don’t need to constantly rewrite the application as it scales up, that just insinuates bad code. And I highly doubt Google is paying their software developers as well as they are, only to get code that doesn’t scale.
As I said, a properly written application, which would inherently take scaling into account to be considered “properly written” would scale without constant need to rewrite code.
Ignoring that, do you think they are still rewriting parts of the application as maintenance? Going on 12 years and they are still tweaking the original code to support new users? Of course they aren’t, that’s insane.
There will always be maintenance. That doesn’t even insinuate code writing. You don’t need to constantly rewrite the application as it scales up, that just insinuates bad code. And I highly doubt Google is paying their software developers as well as they are, only to get code that doesn’t scale.
As I said, a properly written application, which would inherently take scaling into account to be considered “properly written” would scale without constant need to rewrite code.
Ignoring that, do you think they are still rewriting parts of the application as maintenance? Going on 12 years and they are still tweaking the original code to support new users? Of course they aren’t, that’s insane.