How 1 Software Engineer Outperforms 138 - Lichess Case Study

This is a case study on the Lichess product. A free and open source chess platform with over 4 million monthly active users and 1 core developer. The stack he uses is Scala, MongoDB and Snabbdom hosted on bare metal. This is an incredibly interesting project that I enjoyed studying to understand productivity. This is a new format so I'm interest to hear your feedback. I had a lot of fun studying this project. Lichess: https://lichess.org/ https://lichess.org/patron References https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/7fnc3b/i_started_lichessorg_as_a_hobby_side_project_ama/ https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/mpasyl/i_started_lichess_ask_me_anything/ https://lichess.org/@/thibault/blog https://lichess.org/@/lichess/blog/developer-update-275-improved-game-compression/Wqa7GiAA https://lichess.org/@/thibault/blog/starting-from-scratch/NITT84rC https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Si3PMUJGR9KrpE5lngSkHLJKJkb0ZuI4/preview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZgyVadkgmI&pp=ygUSbGljaGVzcyBkZXYgc3RyZWFt Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 0:29 - Story to kill retention 2:06 - Lichess vs Chess.com 3:51 - Scala 6:20 - Play Framework 7:00 - MongoDB 9:16 - Snabbdom 11:17 - Architecture 15:47 - Flutter 16:01 - Developer Mindset 18:21 - Openness 18:45 - Key Takeaways 21:51 - Lichess Patreon