Parry: GameSparks processed 40 billion API calls per month
Griff Parry · 51 year old dad raises $31.5m to help companies do meter based billing · Mar 7, 2024 · at 13:20
Griff Parry reflects on the operational scale of his previous venture, backend-as-a-service company GameSparks (acquired by AWS).
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“I'll use games box as an example. So we were doing about forty billion API calls a month.”
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