Scaling to Billions of Requests a Day with AWS | by AWS Startups | AWS Startup Collection | Medium

By Hubert Chen

10 min read Jul 19, 2016 -- By Hubert Chen Press enter or click to view image in full size Our startup, Branch, unveiled our deep linking tool to the world in September, 2014, and less than two months later our infrastructure was growing quickly. The Node.js application servers were at 80% CPU, and our PostgresSQL RDS looked like it didn’t have much more room to grow. Meanwhile, traffic was doubling every couple of weeks. We had to figure out a pathway to scale quickly, or we’d be dead. Press enter or click to view image in full size About Our Service Branch is a rapidly growing…

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