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They get thousands of doom-scrollers every day, and their revenue was ~$55M last year.
Admittedly, those numbers are peanuts compared to some global SaaS providers.
But they managed to work for decades on two moderately beefy servers, and a database server, behind a load balancer.
Heck, one server was always enough. The second one was there for redundancy, during releases and in case of emergency.
Traffic peaked at 80% during nation-wide flow-tv commercials. As flow-tv is on the way out, the traffic has spread out a lot more.
They used Perl, which isn't insanely fast, it was just well-made (enough caching, no N+1 queries, etc.).
"That point" where auto-scaling is the obvious choice is pretty far out.
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They get thousands of doom-scrollers every day, and their revenue was ~$55M last year.
Admittedly, those numbers are peanuts compared to some global SaaS providers.
But they managed to work for decades on two moderately beefy servers, and a database server, behind a load balancer.
Heck, one server was always enough. The second one was there for redundancy, during releases and in case of emergency.
Traffic peaked at 80% during nation-wide flow-tv commercials. As flow-tv is on the way out, the traffic has spread out a lot more.
They used Perl, which isn't insanely fast, it was just well-made (enough caching, no N+1 queries, etc.).
"That point" where auto-scaling is the obvious choice is pretty far out.