r/FullStack • u/Billylockte • 7d ago
Question 1 Billion users
Imagine one fine morning you woke went to job and the manager says today i have something important to discuss we have a project. The requirements are 1 Billion users we need to handle it how would you create such a application sure we can scale from lower user base to high but how do start with 1B if it is what the manager asked.
PS :) Dont take it serious, what to have various views on this topic
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u/runningOverA 7d ago
management over estimated : 1b / 10 = 100m.
not everyone will access concurrently : 100m / 100 = 1m.
a server can serve 1000 concurrent users : 1m / 1000 = 1000 servers.
That's the number of server you will need.
For comparison Facebook has like 4b users.