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Is there an example of a million-user/big B2B company built entirely on top of FAAS like AWS Lambda and some lind of database with auto scaling, sharding et al.
by jxub 9y ago
Is there an example of a million-user/big B2B company built entirely on top of FAAS like AWS Lambda and some lind of database with auto scaling, sharding et al. (maybe Spanner or CockroachDB [0])? I suspect once somethink like that happens we could have companies that have almost Google scale while just employing a couple of engineers.
[0] As a side note, I'm sure a blueprint for handling the common DB scaling problem. I suppose we could train a ML model to read some logs/usage stats and handle the remainder of edge cases. But making such a model will probably require hundreds of engineers so I guess we're safe at the moment.
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- eitally 9y agoThe scaling isn't the problem that requires large engineering teams. It's partner integrations, compliance work, and all sorts of things that are extremely non-core.
- warrenm 9y agothis 100x!
- simonw 9y agoSnapchat was built on Google App Engine, so they're probably one of the best large scale examples of this.
- stickfigure 9y agoThis is true, and really one of the more mysterious things about the headcount. This should be an example of how to keep an organization lean as it scales. I wonder why it isn't.
- askafriend 9y agoSnapchat and Nextdoor are great examples. The former runs most infra on Google App Engine, and the latter runs primarily on AWS.