Version 1.0 of Twitter had to handle 200 friends and family with the most trivial of tasks. Version 1.0 of Covered California had to handle 1+ million users, i

Version 1.0 of Twitter had to handle 200 friends and family with the most trivial of tasks. Version 1.0 of Covered California had to handle 1+ million users, in the extremely complicated world of health insurance, while dealing with extremely sensitive data. I'm sure it could have been built for a heck of a lot less, but I doubt it's quite as wasteful as you might imagine.