I lived for a few weeks in 2009 in the original Airbnb house on Rausch St when Brian and Joe had an extra room. I learned a ton: from extreme community care to perseverance and kindness.
Right there - when Airbnb was about 10 people in total, Brian told me: We'll go IPO. We'll be $100B IPO.
SeriesB stage: A16Z, Index Ventures, Jeff Bezos, CRV, NEA.
Kong Inc., the microservices API company. We’ve built one of the most popular pieces of open source software in the world (Kong API Gateway) and grown a large and active developer community. We’re looking for a few great people who want to be part of a fun, highly-collaborative team.
Another way to add a fast, distributed rate-limiting on top of your APIs is by using an API Gateway [1] like the open-source Kong [2]. This pattern is becoming a standard since it saves time from re-implementing and duplicating the same rate limiting logic in each backend microservice.
Also, do not forget about Quotas which usually comes along with Rate limits. Modern API gateways can handle so many stuff for you and help with API scaling.
