SMRTR ProgrammingAug 17, 2026Hacker Noon

Meet the Programmer Who Scaled a Pizza Restaurant Into an International Company

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Gleb Lesnikov, Software Architect at Dodo Brands, shares insights from building Dodo IS — a system powering 1,700+ restaurants across 27 countries at 720 orders per minute. He discusses breaking a monolith while keeping the business running, his preference for C# over Rust, and why developers should read full documentation instead of relying on LLM-generated answers.

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