Google has, like other cloud providers, they all have a quota system and the ability to request more quota. We started out by taking a Google project and requesting the max CPUs of a particular CPU architecture in a particular region. And so over time, we were able to scale out across, you know, East, West and Central in several different regions and availability zones as well. So there was a lot of trial and error, a lot of ramping up this quarter request until they got approved and then pushing our luck.
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Few genuinely need a multi-cloud setup. There is plenty of advice out there which mostly boils down to don’t do it, you will be worse off. Vex.dev is a startup that provides APIs for video and audio streaming. The hard part is real-time combined with massive scale - think hundreds of thousands of concurrent connections. They achieve this by using a combination of Fly.io, AWS and GCP. Jason Carter, founder of Vex Communications, is joining us today to talk about the multi-cloud setup that vex.dev runs.
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