Scaling (Down) with AWS
Launching a new webapp is never easy – even one as simple as a URL shortener. Will it catch on? If it does, what does that mean in terms of traffic? 10, 100, 1000 requests per second?
A few weeks ago we did some back of the envelope calculations for how big wi.nr could get in the best case. The calculation went something like: 10,000 active users x 10 shortened URLs per day x 100 people clicking on each of those URLs = 10M shortened URLs clicked a day or ~120 per sec.
