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How Uploadcare Built a Stack That Handles 350M File API Requests per Day

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Re: How Uploadcare Built a Stack That Handles 350M File API Requests per Day

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Post by dmitrymukhin » Tue, Aug 29, 2017, 1:28 PM UTC

lukb wrote: post #19

That's a great read. I've always been interested in learning how such tech-oriented companies found their initial traction. Are there any blog posts / articles / podcasts about Uploadcare's early days and the search for the product/market fit?

Short answer is:

- believing in your own service - perseverance - fanatical customer support

This helped us to stay focused and our happy customers brought us new happy customers. We didn't know much about marketing in the beginning.

Re: How Uploadcare Built a Stack That Handles 350M File API Requests per Day

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Post by otakucode » Wed, Aug 30, 2017, 8:45 PM UTC

coldcode wrote: post #3

I find it interesting that these sorts of stacks have tons of moving parts. Maybe it's the nature of highly scalable systems? Or does it come from starting with one particular technology and then having to drag in lots of other things to make it work?

It wouldn't need many moving parts if you didn't want to mess with the data. Like if you just functioned essentially as a blob store. But as soon as you start touching data formats... things get fun and you should prepare to be a hacker playground.

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