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> 0) they have extreme operational expenses (they choose to invest into their own infra instead of using cloud) As people like to point out quite often, this t
by Sebb767 5y ago
> 0) they have extreme operational expenses (they choose to invest into their own infra instead of using cloud)
As people like to point out quite often, this tends to be the cheaper way, especially at scale.
- znpy 5y agoit's the same thing whatsapp did iirc.
- londons_explore 5y agoIf I were implemting telegram, the MVP version would be on AWS. Then the "scales to 10M users" version would also be in AWS, but only using EC2 and no deeply integrated Amazon services. Then I'd hire a team to build it on-site for the "scales to 3B users" version of the infra.
- OJFord 5y agoMVP fair enough, but somewhere along the way there I'm pretty sure you'd be losing money an awful lot faster than Telegram is.