Anurag shares the significant hurdles faced during the early growth of their platform, particularly with DDoS attacks that pushed them to rethink their architecture. He discusses the decision to leverage services like Cloudflare and major cloud providers instead of relying on bare metal solutions, which lacked adequate protection. Additionally, he recounts the challenges encountered with GKE, highlighting their unexpected status as one of the largest clusters, which led to numerous bugs just before a crucial presentation.
