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What type of infrastructure and operations do you think is necessary to handle 8.4B messages per day. So far, the cost of those systems and teams has come from
by jonhohle 3y ago
What type of infrastructure and operations do you think is necessary to handle 8.4B messages per day. So far, the cost of those systems and teams has come from hardware sales. The benefit is that it is effectively a paid for service and doesn't need external support from advertisers or by selling user data.
- Miner49er 3y agoA couple hundred servers, and like 5 engineers.
- jonhohle 3y agoMinimally that’s a few million dollars per year for KTLO. At least a few million more for ongoing development. Why should it be free for everyone?
- freedomben 3y agoIt really depends on what stack you pick and what kind of engineers you have. What's App famously used Erlang (an excellent choice for this) and was able to scale to astronomical levels with a fairly small engineering team and hundreds of instances.