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Founder’s Guide to Scaling Applications: When to Build, When to Buy and What Breaks by Algolia Co-founder (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We did use at the end Nightbreed solution, which is a mix of APIs plus custom code and we use the GCP platform for that with … Data Flow, a lot of different products. Okay, it’s not possible for the pricing. Let’s look for one of our solution. But it took us close to a year to develop it.

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Moving ChartMogul to AWS and Kubernetes

Chart Mogul

We kept growing over the years, and by 2019 we found ourselves looking at a fleet of somewhere around 50 machines in constant need of management, software updates, security patches, and so on. We researched the market and discovered many tradeoffs and advantages a new provider could bring to the table. Team expertise.