The absolute number doesn’t matter nearly as much as the change in rate of growth. The number of commits had not been doubling every six months at GitHub for a long time.
At Amazon if traffic volume consistently doubled every six months that is actually quite a lot easier to plan for, it just becomes part of everything they do from very early on.
At Amazon if traffic volume consistently doubled every six months that is actually quite a lot easier to plan for, it just becomes part of everything they do from very early on.