# How Khan Academy Scaled to 2.5x Traffic During the Coronavirus Pandemic

DevFeed: [How Khan Academy Scaled to 2.5x Traffic During the Coronavirus Pandemic](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-khan-academy-successfully-handled-2-5x-traffic-in-a-week-27379.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<http://engineering.khanacademy.org/posts/handling-2x-traffic-in-a-week.htm>)

Author: Khan Academy

Published: 2020-05-09T22:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Khan Academy](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/khan-academy.md>)

Topics: [Scalability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/scalability.md>), [Architecture & Design](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/architecture-design.md>), [Serverless](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/serverless.md>), [Caching](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/caching.md>), [Google Cloud Platform (GCP)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google-cloud.md>), [Load Balancing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/load-balancing.md>)

Tags: [architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architecture.md>), [caching](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/caching.md>), [cdn](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cdn.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [gcp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gcp.md>), [google-cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/google-cloud.md>), [load-balancing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/load-balancing.md>), [news](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/news.md>), [scalability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scalability.md>), [serverless](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/serverless.md>), [web](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web.md>)

## AI overview

Marta Kosarchyn explains how Khan Academy handled site usage reaching 2.5 times the previous year's level during the coronavirus pandemic. The article attributes the scalability to Google Cloud services, serverless infrastructure, Datastore, Memcache, Fastly CDN caching, and advance preparation.

## Source excerpt

By Marta Kosarchyn Talk about rapid scaling... A few months ago I posted some thoughts on scaling and ... Read more