“And the largest peaks will be 2 to 4x the steady state…” — Y Combinator Startup Podcast at 10:22
“And the largest peaks will be 2 to 4x the steady state traffic. So you can engineer your whole product such that if we can support 2 to 4x the steady state traffic and our site doesn't go down, we're good. On a live video product, our peaks were 20x. Now, you can't even really test 20x peaks. You just experience them…”
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