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Wired / Brian Barrett
/ Jan 22“By 9 pm, he had already blown through the free tier offered by Heroku, the cloud platform that Sawhney is using to host the site. At 9:27 pm, as the requests piled up, he tweeted, ‘oh god … google dot com how to scale heroku app quickly.’ … ‘If I had known this was going to be the traffic, I would have made every single decision completely differently,’ says Sawhney. ‘When it blew up I realized that a website is more than just writing the code and putting it on there.'” —
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