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AWS' Crittercism: Solving Mobile Performance Issues for One Billion Users

Original post Crittercism: Solving Mobile Performance Issues for One Billion Users | AWS Startups Blog

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Crittercism handles more traffic than Google Search (50K vs 40K requests/second) with just 3 DevOps engineers. How do they pull this off?

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