--- title: Blog: Embedded Means Their Backend Too | daily.dev description: When a client's backend needed changes to unblock mobile work, Wawandco's engineers made those changes themselves instead of waiting on a maintainer ten and a... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/blog-embedded-means-their-backend-too-9guv7sxbi twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Blog: Embedded Means Their Backend Too | daily.dev og:description: When a client's backend needed changes to unblock mobile work, Wawandco's engineers made those changes themselves instead of waiting on a maintainer ten and a... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/blog-embedded-means-their-backend-too-9guv7sxbi og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/9guV7sXbi.png og:image:alt: Blog: Embedded Means Their Backend Too og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Blog: Embedded Means Their Backend Too **[Wawandco](https://daily.dev/sources/wawandco)** · 11 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary When a client's backend needed changes to unblock mobile work, Wawandco's engineers made those changes themselves instead of waiting on a maintainer ten and a half hours ahead. They left the changes small, documented with the reasoning, and backed by tests so the maintainer could review asynchronously. The company cites research showing 65% of 133 studied open-source projects had a truck factor of two or less, and that developers new to a codebase get over twice as many review comments as veterans. They say teams wanting engineers confined strictly to their tickets aren't a good client fit. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What is a truck factor and how many open-source projects have a low one Truck factor is the number of people who would need to leave a project before it's in trouble. A study estimating the truck factor of 133 popular open-source GitHub projects found that 65% had a truck factor of two or less, meaning most rely on very few people for critical knowledge. _Teams weighing bus-factor risk on their own codebase can track research like this through daily.dev._ ### Do new contributors to a codebase get more code review comments than experienced ones Yes, developers new to a codebase receive more than twice as many review comments per change compared to people who have worked in it longer, according to code review research at Google. The same research found reviewers expect review to catch mistakes, enforce norms, spread knowledge, and prevent unchecked commits. _Engineers ramping up on an unfamiliar codebase can find review-practice context like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Thank you, but I prefer it my way](https://daily.dev/posts/thank-you-but-i-prefer-it-my-way-gmww3p9nt) · RUBYLAND · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [5 engineering dogmas it's time to retire](https://daily.dev/posts/5-engineering-dogmas-it-s-time-to-retire-00ncs6nnx) · Manager.dev · 91 upvotes · 9 comments - [What They Don't Tell You About Maintaining an Open Source Project](https://daily.dev/posts/what-they-don-t-tell-you-about-maintaining-an-open-source-project-ed1eqebor) · Hacker News · 27 upvotes · 1 comments - [Why Your Engineering Team Is Slow \(It's the Codebase, Not the People\)](https://daily.dev/posts/why-your-engineering-team-is-slow-it-s-the-codebase-not-the-people--uubshdpiu) · Ruby Flow · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Blog: The Context Switching Tax: Why Engineering Teams Ship Less Than They Think](https://daily.dev/posts/blog-the-context-switching-tax-why-engineering-teams-ship-less-than-they-think-hffqsl5in) · Wawandco · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#code-review](https://daily.dev/tags/code-review), [#technical-debt](https://daily.dev/tags/technical-debt) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/blog-embedded-means-their-backend-too-9guv7sxbi) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Blog: Embedded Means Their Backend Too","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/blog-embedded-means-their-backend-too-9guv7sxbi","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/blog-embedded-means-their-backend-too-9guv7sxbi"},"datePublished":"2026-10-27T09:36:19.262Z","dateModified":"2026-10-27T09:36:46.019Z","description":"When a client's backend needed changes to unblock mobile work, Wawandco's engineers made those changes themselves instead of waiting on a maintainer ten and a...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/450dfb3e8e66a0a9f8a0a95966c8ba7c?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/450dfb3e8e66a0a9f8a0a95966c8ba7c?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Wawandco","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Wawandco","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/6fd59b4ffa57474a8d77c28a4d7deadb","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/wawandco"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/blog-embedded-means-their-backend-too-9guv7sxbi","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"code-review,technical-debt","timeRequired":"PT11M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Wawandco","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/wawandco"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Blog: Embedded Means Their Backend Too"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/blog-embedded-means-their-backend-too-9guv7sxbi#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"What is a truck factor and how many open-source projects have a low one","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Truck factor is the number of people who would need to leave a project before it's in trouble. 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