^ THIS. I wish I had more up votes.<p>The amount of time I&#x27;ve seen wasted trying to scale to Google is insane. People should worry about what Google does when they work for at least a billion dollar company.<p>For most projects import as many dependencies as you can as you are getting free labour. Sure, once in a while you&#x27;ll fuck something up and waste a week or two, but it pales in comparison to the months you didn&#x27;t spend reinventing the wheel.<p>No one really ever notices that it&#x27;s all the companies with boat loads of cash that have massive technical debt. Even with the example at Google the first thing I&#x27;d try is jamming more memory in those machines, keep going until the linker needs more than 256 GB.<p>Fuck, Facebook still uses PHP, the stock market doesn&#x27;t seem to care.