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A comment on A Beginner's Guide to Scaling to 11M Users on Amazon's AWS (2016). Parent comment

Re:A Beginner's Guide to Scaling to 11M Users on Amazon's AW... by maxxxxx on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @11:55AM (#18763109)
It always amazes me how much load servers can take these days.

I guess the only thing you couldn't handle well would be large spikes in demand.

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Re:A Beginner's Guide to Scaling to 11M Users on Amazon's AW... by chmod775 on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @12:13PM (#18763219)
There was some spikes that brought the site down. A notable one was when I submitted the site to HN back when that kind of traffic was still a lot. You learn something each time...
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