Fulkerson: MindTouch processes about 1B events monthly
Aaron Fulkerson · 977 How Mindtouch Landed $1m+ Customers, $7m ARR Bootstrapped, Now $20m+ · Mar 28, 2018 · at 11:33
Aaron Fulkerson, co-founder of MindTouch, discusses the operational workload running across the company's AWS cloud infrastructure.
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“And then if you look at like our number of events that we do monthly, we're doing like a billion events monthly.”
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