Does anyone have a theory on what enabled Instagram to get to 27m users with only 13 employees in 2012, and why that still seems very difficult today despite all the SASS products helping startups?

Some game companies also used to release a new game monthly in the 90s, without code completion, Copilot, Git, Github!

From a technical POV, takeaways:
1. KISS
2. Use proven, boring technologies
3. Don't reinvent the wheel

gigameshmusic.com | formerly @optimism, @soundxyz, @farther

From a technical POV, takeaways:
1. KISS
2. Use proven, boring technologies
3. Don't reinvent the wheel

 https://read.engineerscodex.com/p/how-instagram-scaled-to-14-million

enzo's dad 🇬🇷 in LA 🌴 eng @ fanatics.live ⚾️ alexloukissas.com

Which ones? EC2 and S3 and CF were the OG services :)

I actually didn’t realize all those AWS products were around at that time.