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Great overview here on how you solved a problem and built a business around that.

I read that you use Elastic Beanstalk for your server config, but I wanted to ask: 1. What programming language did you use?

2. What, if any, configuration did you have to do to the Elastic Beanstalk config to deal with network spikes and autoscaling?

Thanks!

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I was going to ask why AWS Lambda was not used instead. Or any other serverless offering from the major cloud providers.

Yeah, that would be totally hands off. But I believe you'd have to ensure that your requests didn't timeout, (3 seconds in lambda) and in this example of 10ms response times I couldn't see any issue here. If you're into python, checkout Chalice, it's being built as a "flask" like interface on top of AWS Lambda. https://github.com/awslabs/chalice

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