From Inception to Acquisition

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Launched December 2008 as BrowserMob, the product uses Selenium-driven real browsers on Amazon EC2 to generate load, charges $1 per browser-hour vs $0.085 cost, and turns profitable in month one; architecture choices include per-test dedicated MySQL instances, experimenting with S3/SimpleDB/RDS and HAR files, AMIs treated as stem-cell images, and Twilio-based call alerts (later replaced by PagerDuty); operation scales from 20-instance EC2 limits to spinning up thousands, reaches 3 employees, 500 customers, and is acquired within 18 months.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 6:04Optimizing for the Cloud
3. 7:53The Profit Model
4. 9:07Processing Data

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