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0cf8612b2e1e • yesterday at 4:07 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

I think it would be helpful if some of these posts included scale. There are almost always two groups talking past each other

  - I run my B2B application, Postgres only, and it is perfect for my 50k MAU. No complaints, sleeping soundly with the low complexity and a two man team. 
  - I work at FAANG, where we have 1 billion DAU, and this is a joke. Would fall over immediately. The dedicated ops teams for Kubernetes, Elastic, and Redis have never complained about scaling issues.

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lelanthran • yesterday at 7:56 PM

I broadly agree, but would tweak those numbers a little for small B2B apps: I ran a small B2B application on a cheap VPS using PostgreSQL as a primitive messaging interface, and even on a small VPS 50k DAU won't even cause the machine to break a sweat.

joshuamoyers • yesterday at 4:42 PM

i think 1 billion DAU is the exception here, so I would not expect everyone to constantly caveat personally.

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