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Evolution: Survive Your Own Success

$0/mo

justified 0/0

edge

Clients$0/mo

CDN$400/mo

network

DNS$5/mo

Load Balancer$150/mo

API Gateway$250/mo

compute

App Server$120/mo

Worker Pool$100/mo

storage

PostgreSQL$600/mo

MySQL$550/mo

MongoDB$700/mo

Redis$200/mo

Memcached$150/mo

Object Storage$250/mo

Elasticsearch$900/mo

messaging

Kafka$800/mo

RabbitMQ$300/mo

Managed Queue$100/mo

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Functional

Serve a personalized photo feed with < 250ms p99 latency at every stage
Store posts durably in a relational store
Feed reads are 90% of traffic and highly cacheable

Non-functional

Stage 1 (today): 2,000 rps with 0% errors
Stage 2 (next year): 10,000 rps with 0% errors
Stage 3 (celebrity day): 40,000 rps with < 10% errors — graceful degradation beats collapse
Survive a region-A database outage at stage-2 traffic with < 1% errors
Total infrastructure cost under $3,000/month

Failure scenarios

⚡ Stage 1: launch (2k rps)
⚡ Stage 2: a year later (10k rps)
⚡ Stage 3: celebrity joins (40k rps)
⚡ Region-A database outage at stage-2 traffic

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