--- title: How Pinterest Scaled to 11 Million Users With Only 6... description: Learn about Pinterest's journey of scaling to 11 million users with only 6 engineers, including the four phases of their evolution, their core technologies for... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-pinterest-scaled-to-11-million-users-with-only-6-engineers-ru50mia9k twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How Pinterest Scaled to 11 Million Users With Only 6 Engineers | daily.dev og:description: Learn about Pinterest's journey of scaling to 11 million users with only 6 engineers, including the four phases of their evolution, their core technologies for... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-pinterest-scaled-to-11-million-users-with-only-6-engineers-ru50mia9k og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/RU50MIa9K.png og:image:alt: How Pinterest Scaled to 11 Million Users With Only 6 Engineers og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How Pinterest Scaled to 11 Million Users With Only 6 Engineers **[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 9 min read · 36 upvotes · 2 comments ## Summary Learn about Pinterest's journey of scaling to 11 million users with only 6 engineers, including the four phases of their evolution, their core technologies for scalability, the choice between clustering and sharding, and the drawbacks and solutions of sharding. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@mrbns** · 1 upvotes > whatt ? with only 6 engineers ? that's insane ❤️‍🔥 **@creativewarlock** · 0 upvotes > Awesome article! --- Tags: [#career](https://daily.dev/tags/career), [#database](https://daily.dev/tags/database), [#mysql](https://daily.dev/tags/mysql) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/how-pinterest-scaled-to-11-million-users-with-only-6-engineers-ru50mia9k) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"How Pinterest Scaled to 11 Million Users With Only 6 Engineers","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-pinterest-scaled-to-11-million-users-with-only-6-engineers-ru50mia9k","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-pinterest-scaled-to-11-million-users-with-only-6-engineers-ru50mia9k"},"datePublished":"2024-05-15T06:38:32.038Z","dateModified":"2024-05-15T06:38:31.677Z","description":"Learn about Pinterest's journey of scaling to 11 million users with only 6 engineers, including the four phases of their evolution, their core technologies for...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/4d258718c4cbc1e982aafe552e4d3de8?_a=AQAEuiZ","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/4d258718c4cbc1e982aafe552e4d3de8?_a=AQAEuiZ","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Medium","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Medium","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/medium","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js"},"commentCount":2,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-pinterest-scaled-to-11-million-users-with-only-6-engineers-ru50mia9k","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":36},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":2}],"keywords":"career,database,mysql","timeRequired":"PT9M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Medium","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"How Pinterest Scaled to 11 Million Users With Only 6 Engineers"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-pinterest-scaled-to-11-million-users-with-only-6-engineers-ru50mia9k","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"whatt ? with only 6 engineers ? that’s insane ❤️‍🔥","datePublished":"2024-05-20T19:00:51.377Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/RU50MIa9K#c-edVjTyP3m","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Mr Binary Sniper","url":"https://daily.dev/mrbns","image":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a/ACg8ocKJz22dnnCRo3u-wMdwkc0hhctXTlv_dgoIbPa_05kkcQHWtTc=s96-c"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Awesome article!","datePublished":"2024-05-21T10:52:31.442Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/RU50MIa9K#c-nInV9Nbrw","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Marcel Fitzner","url":"https://daily.dev/creativewarlock","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4894323?v=4"}}]} ```