Why you shouldn’t build an app aimed at 500,000 users in 5 days on a $100 server

By Howard Lo A few days ago, I read Erik Duindam’s “How I built an app with 500,000 users in 5 days on a $100 server” article. Basically, he spent an extra 2–3 hours (totaling 24) to make his app (GoSnap) scalable by using a CDN and some optimized da...