Founder's Guide to Scaling Applications: When to Build, When to Buy and What Breaks

16 Oct 2019 · 34 min
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Julien Lemoine, CTO of Algolia, walks through when to build technology versus buy it. Building bare-metal infrastructure early gave them 10x performance gains, but building DNS, monitoring, and analytics internally became expensive maintenance drains. Only a genuine 10x advantage justifies building from scratch.

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2012

About 350 people

6 offices

~3,000 servers across more than 70 data centers

Between 200 and 300 billion requests per month

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