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		segmondy on Feb 5, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Scaling to 100k Users IMHO, I believe discussion about scale should begin with at least 1Million users these days. 100k has been old news for more than a decade.

lbriner on Feb 5, 2020 [–]

As stated above, the number of users is not a measure of a system, it is the concurrency multiplied by the typical system loads per action.

Clearly a million users on Facebook is much heavier than a million registered with online banking and who only use it once a month.

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