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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

When it comes to seamlessly scaling your applications, a top-notch engineering team will be your foundation. We develop a search API to help any developer to have a very good search in their application. So today we are a distributed team. Of course, behind this product, we have a super strong team.

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