--- title: How to design a system to scale to your first 100... description: How to design a system to scale to your first 100 million users. Think Big, Do Small, Learn Fast by Anh Dang. The High-Performance Series is a series of... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-design-a-system-to-scale-to-your-first-100-million-users-yjqw3922f twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How to design a system to scale to your first 100 million users | daily.dev og:description: How to design a system to scale to your first 100 million users. Think Big, Do Small, Learn Fast by Anh Dang. The High-Performance Series is a series of... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-design-a-system-to-scale-to-your-first-100-million-users-yjqw3922f og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/YJQw3922F.png og:image:alt: How to design a system to scale to your first 100 million users 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 to design a system to scale to your first 100 million users **[gitconnected](https://daily.dev/sources/gc)** · [@junryo](https://daily.dev/junryo) · 14 min read · 86 upvotes · 4 comments ## Summary How to design a system to scale to your first 100 million users. Think Big, Do Small, Learn Fast by Anh Dang. The High-Performance Series is a series of articles on high-performance computing. Read the first one here: http://www.techcrunch.com/2013/06/27/how-to-design-a-system-to scale to-your-first-100-million- users. ## 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. **@trungtruong** · 1 upvotes > Great topic, thank you for your sharing **@matiast** · 1 upvotes > Very interesting and I like how the Article was written. 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