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Moving ChartMogul to AWS and Kubernetes

Chart Mogul

Since our inception in 2014 and up to mid-2021, our entire infrastructure has run on DigitalOcean droplets (self-managed cloud virtual machines). We researched the market and discovered many tradeoffs and advantages a new provider could bring to the table. Our options were Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud (GCP), and Azure.

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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

It can be your factor 10, like on performance for us, but it could also be a negative decision. We were end of 2014. 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.

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