What happens after you hit #1 on HackerNews? You scale and scale fast. We recently shared our story with the Elasticsearch team about how TrackJS migrated and optimized our application to keep up with explosive business growth.
In our webinar “Scale Fast or Die Trying: How TrackJS Met Demand with Elasticsearch,” we dive deep into the technical challenges and solutions that allowed us to handle our rapid expansion. Steve Kearns from Elasticsearch joined our co-founders Todd Gardner and Eric Brandes to discuss how we:
- Migrated from SQL Server to Elasticsearch on Microsoft Azure without losing data or downtime
- Simplified our architecture to reduce complexity and maintenance overhead
- Scaled to handle rapid growth in both client count and data volume per client
- Optimized our indexing strategy in Elasticsearch to dramatically reduce processing overhead
The webinar covers real-world scaling challenges that many growing companies face. We don’t have unlimited budgets - the answer isn’t always “throw bigger hardware at the problem.” Instead, we share the hard-won lessons learned while processing over 200 million error events per month on a reasonable budget.
Whether you’re considering Elasticsearch for your own scaling challenges or just curious about how a small team handles massive data volumes, this webinar provides practical insights from our journey.
Watch the full webinar on the Elasticsearch website to learn how we turned a scaling crisis into a competitive advantage.
