[wibble10]

I can’t speak for the simplicity, but by all accounts the backend of this system is (it was at some point) a single ec2 instance and is a single person project.

Granted that person is cpercival but whatever :)

https://www.tarsnap.com

[ignoramous]

A little bit of trivia for people who might not know: cpercival was an integral part of one of the favourite HN threads of all time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079

[giarc]

That thread was a nice little rabbit hole in the morning, thanks. There's also an appearance by Drew Houston with early mention of dropbox in there.

[bpizzi]

It's definitely not a simple CRUD vanilla app, thought.

[aerovistae]

Is cpercival supposed to be a name people recognize? I just googled it and didn't find any substantial identifying information. Who is that?

[thieving_magpie]

Regular HN poster and Tarsnap proprietor: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cperciva