How Draw Something absorbed 50 million new users in 50 days
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The claim is concrete: 50 million new users in 50 days. The concrete tech named is Couchbase and its document-oriented NoSQL model. Expect specifics about the scaling goal, the performance numbers that surprised engineers, the architecture changes deployed and the feature set that had to be built to absorb the surge, and whether those changes actually sustained the user spike without data loss or downtime.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 0:34Draw Something Viral Growth
- 1:21In the Beginning...
- 1:32Application Layer Struggles
- 2:25Data Layer Struggles
- 3:092M - 4M Users in Two Days
- 3:5250 Million Downloads in 50 Days
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