Partovi: iLike scaled from two to 32 servers within hours of launch
Hadi Partovi · Let Fires Burn (with Gixo's Selina Tobaccowala) · Mar 31, 2023 · at 12:00
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Code.org co-founder Hadi Partovi recounts the viral traffic surge following the launch of his music app iLike on Facebook in 2007.
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“We planned to have two servers running this to judge interest, and basically within 30 minutes we realized two servers wasn't gonna be enough, so we immediately doubled it, and then we doubled it again, and then we doubled it again until our entire server farm of, I think, 32 servers. We could see that by the end of the weekend we'd run out of servers.”
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