1 People prop up 60 million people, is the power of PAAs

for PAAs, it is believed that many people are cautious about it and do not know if they should use the product. In the previous stage "users accuse Heroku to modify the routing mechanism to create high expenditure" after the storm transit, the PAAs in the hearts of people become more daunting. But is the PAAs really like these negative say, high investment then can not bring the due return? Of course not, he certainly has a lot to recommend, and here's a look at the positive energies from PAAs.

Songpop

Songpop, is in May 2012 Online Music Edition you draw me to guess the game, now, the number of people who play this game has reached 60 million users, ranked 5th in the 2012 iOS game download list. Now Songpop has the ability to deal with the online activities of millions of active users, but the crux of the problem is that there are only 6 engineers in Songpop's team! Only one person is doing full-time back-end work. Songpop only took less than 6 months to achieve the expansion from 0 to 10,000 queries per second, and they attributed most of the credit to the PAAs platform--goolge App Engine used.

Experience summarized as follows: Only do light, let PAAs take on the heavy parts; When you need to expand, you just need to buy more resources and make a small amount of adjustments (and, of course, probably a lot); The payoff is to focus on the app's feature development and start with a very small team.

Songpop Architecture Diagram: