Scaling Traffic from 0 to 139 Million Unique Visitors

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Michael, VP of Engineering
- Oct 31, 2014
At LAUNCH Scale last week, I gave a talk to over 75 co-founders (CEOs and CTOs) on how we’ve scaled traffic here at Yelp. It brought back memories of Darwin biting through our ethernet cable and reminded me of the run up to our IPO, making sure we had enough capacity to handle the expected surge in traffic from the world’s press (and more recently, the launch of Yelp in Hong Kong!). For close to 8 years, I’ve had the privilege to work alongside some of the best engineers in the world and have seen the meticulous work and thought...