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Doesn't WhatsApp story contradict to what you're saying? They handled millions of users per second, weren't part of FAANG and this helped them get acquired by F

Doesn't WhatsApp story contradict to what you're saying? They handled millions of users per second, weren't part of FAANG and this helped them get acquired by FAANG and a high valuation for being a very nimble team and architecture.

unnouinceput 6y ago
how that contradicted me? I see this as exactly opposite, as in they became part of FAANG exactly because they managed to handle those users. And let's be real, they handled millions users/second after becoming Facebook. Like it or not FB is no.1 social network.
- ClikeX 6y ago
  They got aquired in 2014. They hit 400M users in 2013. By then it was already THE messaging app for several European countries. I know amount of users doesn't equal users/second. But we shouldn't pretend like they weren't able to handle high traffic before Facebook aquired them.
  - unnouinceput 6y ago
    400M in 2013 globally and millions per second does not equal. A simple math says 4x10^8 / 24 / 60 / 60 = ~4.7k users / second. Kind of 3 orders of magnitude lower. Even if you say most users are not spread evenly over those 24 meridians due to Earth being mostly water it will still not get to those millions per second.
    - splintercell 6y ago
      In 2012 they were able to scale to 2 million tcp connections on a single box (and trust me, they actually needed that): https://archive.is/Jo6n https://archive.is/Jo6n
      - unnouinceput 6y ago
        for how much time? you see lab result and real life results are different. Love it or hate it currently there is only one company that can deal with millions of users per seconds and that's Google. No one else does it, not Amazon, not Facebook including their whatsapp (a small math from my above calculation says the number goes from ~5k to ~50k if you say whatsapp has 4 billion daily users, which I doubt it has), not Microsoft. Each time football Cup is active Twitter goes down. Same for plenty of big names when they launch a hyped service (Blizzard for example is another one). Scaling up from lab to real life dealing 24/7 with those millions/second is an entire different beast.
        rantwasp 6y ago
        yeah no. a lot of people can do this. i don’t know why you think google is special but it’s not. maybe you can share so that i can understand your angle
        unnouinceput 6y ago
        already did. the bit about twitter and blizzard were 2 examples. you can google (pun intended) to search for more examples

unnouinceput 6y ago

how that contradicted me? I see this as exactly opposite, as in they became part of FAANG exactly because they managed to handle those users. And let's be real, they handled millions users/second after becoming Facebook. Like it or not FB is no.1 social network.

ClikeX 6y ago
They got aquired in 2014. They hit 400M users in 2013. By then it was already THE messaging app for several European countries. I know amount of users doesn't equal users/second. But we shouldn't pretend like they weren't able to handle high traffic before Facebook aquired them.
- unnouinceput 6y ago
  400M in 2013 globally and millions per second does not equal. A simple math says 4x10^8 / 24 / 60 / 60 = ~4.7k users / second. Kind of 3 orders of magnitude lower. Even if you say most users are not spread evenly over those 24 meridians due to Earth being mostly water it will still not get to those millions per second.
  - splintercell 6y ago
    In 2012 they were able to scale to 2 million tcp connections on a single box (and trust me, they actually needed that): https://archive.is/Jo6n https://archive.is/Jo6n
    - unnouinceput 6y ago
      for how much time? you see lab result and real life results are different. Love it or hate it currently there is only one company that can deal with millions of users per seconds and that's Google. No one else does it, not Amazon, not Facebook including their whatsapp (a small math from my above calculation says the number goes from ~5k to ~50k if you say whatsapp has 4 billion daily users, which I doubt it has), not Microsoft. Each time football Cup is active Twitter goes down. Same for plenty of big names when they launch a hyped service (Blizzard for example is another one). Scaling up from lab to real life dealing 24/7 with those millions/second is an entire different beast.
      - rantwasp 6y ago
        yeah no. a lot of people can do this. i don’t know why you think google is special but it’s not. maybe you can share so that i can understand your angle
        unnouinceput 6y ago
        already did. the bit about twitter and blizzard were 2 examples. you can google (pun intended) to search for more examples