Firebase has a million concurrent client connection limit.

As we started talking to some larger artists and promoters, we realized that some of these may have the potential to have over a million fans, like, coming in concurrently to watch the stream.

And we knew that as we were going to scale, like, no matter if it was at a single artist level

or across the platform,

we wanted to be able to support millions and millions of simultaneous connections.

So what we found was there aren't a ton of guides

or a ton of resources out there for how to scale your Firebase project

or how to port it to like AWS.

I'm Steve Caldwell, co-founder and CTO at Mandolin.

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Steve Caldwell lives in Louisville, Kentucky, but grew up in South Louisiana in the Cajun country.

In the 90s, he loved seeing things he typed on the screen come to life as he built websites in front page 95.

He's got three kids in elementary school, and he's relatively new to Kentucky, but hopes to get out and do the bourbon trail when the timing is right.

He also enjoys playing music, composing, and DJing.

As he puts it, he enjoys combining his passion for music with his passion for technology. In startup land, you have to be able

to ad lib and be flexible to change, understand your customers, and skate where the puck is,

so to speak. It's the same with music, feeling the crowd, responding to your band, etc., which is a really

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