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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)

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We decided to use bare-metal infrastructure and not use cloud infrastructure, VMs, which was kind of completely crazy at this moment. None of that was available on cloud infrastructure at this time. You can do that on cloud provider with availability zone. We have not even fundraise. So this one was a good decision.

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