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Re:WeWork sells Meetup by luckylion on Monday March 30, 2020 @03:17PM (#22731291)
Servers? I don't know how many total members there are but they are running 140k groups? That doesn't sound like you need a to pay Amazon millions of dollars to run it.
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Re:WeWork sells Meetup by redisman on Monday March 30, 2020 @04:22PM (#22731913)
Can this meme die already? Durr Google is just a static webpage with a textfield. Why do they need X engineers lmao
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Re:WeWork sells Meetup by luckylion on Monday March 30, 2020 @04:40PM (#22732082)
You're not seeing a slight difference between a search engine indexing the whole web and a calendar with signups and comments? Yes, I know they do a bit more than that, but let's keep it in perspective.

What at meetup requires hundreds or thousands of servers?

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Re:WeWork sells Meetup by smsm42 on Monday March 30, 2020 @07:02PM (#22733066)
It's a bit more than just a calendar. Thousands maybe not, but hundreds - I wouldn't be surprised, if you count also dev/staging/QA ones especially.
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