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Ask HN: How to scale?
I'm starting a new project, a mobile app. I created a db in postgres, used Node for the backend, and I'm currently hosting everything in heroku.
I was just wondering if this setup is able to scale, or if only a few users (maybe a couple hundreds) will be enough to take down the service.
- metalmanac 10y agoThere is no point in speculating whether it will scale or not, take a data driven approach and load test your setup to find out.
- jlgaddis 10y ago-EMOREINFO
- borplk 10y agoDon't overthink it even with un-optimized code you can get far with a beefy server. In general the rule of thumb is that by the time you have scaling problems you will already be popular enough that it will no longer be a problem.