why tho? In real life if you're in need of handling millions of users per second, I bet you're already part of FAANG, at which point you simply open offices in each country and deploy local servers.
Doesn't WhatsApp story contradict to what you're saying? They handled millions of users per second, weren't part of FAANG and this helped them get acquired by FAANG and a high valuation for being a very nimble team and architecture.
how that contradicted me? I see this as exactly opposite, as in they became part of FAANG exactly because they managed to handle those users. And let's be real, they handled millions users/second after becoming Facebook. Like it or not FB is no.1 social network.
They got aquired in 2014. They hit 400M users in 2013. By then it was already THE messaging app for several European countries.
I know amount of users doesn't equal users/second. But we shouldn't pretend like they weren't able to handle high traffic before Facebook aquired them.
400M in 2013 globally and millions per second does not equal. A simple math says 4x10^8 / 24 / 60 / 60 = ~4.7k users / second. Kind of 3 orders of magnitude lower. Even if you say most users are not spread evenly over those 24 meridians due to Earth being mostly water it will still not get to those millions per second.
for how much time? you see lab result and real life results are different. Love it or hate it currently there is only one company that can deal with millions of users per seconds and that's Google. No one else does it, not Amazon, not Facebook including their whatsapp (a small math from my above calculation says the number goes from ~5k to ~50k if you say whatsapp has 4 billion daily users, which I doubt it has), not Microsoft.
Each time football Cup is active Twitter goes down. Same for plenty of big names when they launch a hyped service (Blizzard for example is another one). Scaling up from lab to real life dealing 24/7 with those millions/second is an entire different beast.
yeah no. a lot of people can do this. i don’t know why you think google is special but it’s not. maybe you can share so that i can understand your angle
