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rawnlq
on July 21, 2016
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How I built an app with 500,000 users in 5 days on...
For this application where he was getting "hundreds of requests per second" at 500M users, if he suddenly grew another 10x he would've had to start scaling horizontally instead of running on just one machine.
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