Ask HN: How to scale?

3 points by ramadis 9y ago ↗ HN

I'm starting a new project, a mobile app. I created a db in postgres, used Node for the backend, and I'm currently hosting everything in heroku.

I was just wondering if this setup is able to scale, or if only a few users (maybe a couple hundreds) will be enough to take down the service.

3 comments

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There is no point in speculating whether it will scale or not, take a data driven approach and load test your setup to find out.

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borplk 9y ago ↗

Don't overthink it even with un-optimized code you can get far with a beefy server.

In general the rule of thumb is that by the time you have scaling problems you will already be popular enough that it will no longer be a problem.