# How Tinybird scales a real-time data platform to handle billions of events

DevFeed: [How Tinybird scales a real-time data platform to handle billions of events](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-to-scale-a-real-time-data-platform-18512.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.tinybird.co/blog/how-tinybird-scales>)

Author: Javi Santana

Published: 2024-02-16T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Tinybird](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/tinybird.md>)

Topics: [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [real-time](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/real-time.md>)

Tags: [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [events](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/events.md>), [load](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/load.md>), [platform](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/platform.md>), [real-time](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/real-time.md>), [scalable-analytics-architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scalable-analytics-architecture.md>), [scale](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scale.md>)

## AI overview

This article describes the infrastructure decisions Tinybird uses to scale a real-time data platform to handle billions of events while keeping queries fast under load.

## Source excerpt

How Tinybird scales to handle billions of events without breaking. The infrastructure decisions that keep queries fast under load.