News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Shoestring Budget? Starting to feel growth issues on your back-end? Embrace unix and C. Parent comment

Re:Shoestring Budget? Starting to feel growth issues on you... by jshen on Tuesday September 09, 2008 @11:40PM (#300066)
i'm not sure this is true. I've been at a couple of startups where the scaling issues came from the database growing everyday with a relatively fixed set of users.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Shoestring Budget? Starting to feel growth issues on you... by mattmaroon on Thursday September 11, 2008 @03:59PM (#301703)
I would still bet the number of startups that have problems like that are <10%
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Shoestring Budget? Starting to feel growth issues on you... by jshen on Saturday September 13, 2008 @04:55PM (#303342)
that's probably true. We weren't getting VC funding and had a stream of revenue to keep it going for a couple years.
[ Parent | on HN ]