The Day My Site Got Hacker News Front Page (And GCP Didn't Flinch)

I published a blog post about a niche programming topic. It was just a little static site hosted on Firebase Hosting. Then I went to bed. I woke up to 47 notifications. My site was on the front page of Hacker News. Traffic was insane. My little site was getting thousands of requests per second. I braced myself for the crash. But it didn't crash. Firebase Hosting is built on Google's global CDN. It just... handled it. I checked the analytics later: over 200,000 visitors in 24 hours. My bill? A few cents for bandwidth. My site? Never went down. That's when I truly understood the power of Google's infrastructure. You don't need to be a big company to handle big traffic. You just need to be on the right platform.