“What did this growth of users mean for the infrastructure? It meant we were getting 10-20 billion messages per day sent through chat. That meant we had a lot of messages flowing and needed to get store, as opposed to memory, so we really needed a scalable database.”
"We started as a managed Saas offering, but it quickly became clear that we were going to need to be able to deploy close to the data because in a lot of cases it can't leave customer VPCs. That's when we turned to Replicated."