(from the last "shower"):<p>> I'm guessing their servers are 100k each? No basis for that guess though.<p>Seems strange to make the guess without basis then says so.. except that it's suspiciously in the right OOM. Perhaps it was unconsciously based on that "shower" article providing a cost estimate for AWS, as well as an estimate of the premium over hardware.<p><a href="https://blog.expensify.com/2018/01/08/scaling-sqlite-to-4m-qps-on-a-single-server/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.expensify.com/2018/01/08/scaling-sqlite-to-4m-q...</a><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16118776" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16118776</a>