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Question for HN: what is your estimate on the minimum man/womanpower needed to scale a product/service up to 10K users? 1M? 900M? For instance, what fraction of
by ericjang 11y ago
Question for HN: what is your estimate on the minimum man/womanpower needed to scale a product/service up to 10K users? 1M? 900M?
For instance, what fraction of Facebook's work is related to making things scale? How much effort does a smaller company like Quora put into scaling for users?
I imagine PaaS/IaaS services like Google App Engine and Amazon Elastic Beanstalk help a lot but I'm curious as to what you think.
- temuze 11y agoDepends on the product! Are you making something that searches the entire internet for relevant documents based on a custom query? Or are you sending a picture to another phone that goes away in < 5s? Or is this a blog? If you're talking "minimum" then theoretically it could be 1 person. It's very easy to scale static pages. Heck - you could host a static page on S3.
- acconsta 11y agoSure, but what's the most popular application hosted on AWS? Does it approach 900 million users?
- joeyspn 11y agoIt was probably Instagram before they moved to FB datacenters, with around 150-200 million monthly users ... http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/89992572022/migrating-aws-fb http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/89992572022/mig...
- acconsta 11y agoMaybe Reddit now then? 200 million monthly uniques: https://www.reddit.com/about/ https://www.reddit.com/about/