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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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People were investing a lot of time to have good performance, but they were not reaching a good enough results. So our initial bet was performance could make a big difference. Even if we decided to use bare-metal infrastructure, even if we decided to do everything ourself, we did try to lower our investment as much as possible.

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