Arjay McCandless

YouTube: The numbers today

YouTube: What happened lately

October 18, 2026 +5.8% subscribers this week The channel went from 120,000 to 127,000 subscribers that week.

This week on the channel +1.6M views this week

Arjay McCandless wouldn't ship his fastest server experiments

Community optimizations squeeze far more from a $12 machine, but maintainability gets its own turn in the spotlight.

Channel: Arjay McCandless · Story of October 15, 2026

Video taking off 6.8x its usual first day

Arjay McCandless' $12 server challenge runs into a Linux ceiling

Community programmers squeeze far more out of his modest machine, but the fastest solutions come with a practical catch.

Channel: Arjay McCandless · Story of October 14, 2026

The video drawing the most views now

How Many Developers Can ONE Git Server Handle?

Video published

November 10, 2026

Video views so far

26,158

Video views, pace per day

36,632

Views in its first 13 hours

26,158

YouTube: Position on Trari and in the category

The ranking by views counts only channels whose weekly number is available.

The channel's share of the category

0.5% of all views the category's channels gained this week

Subscriber growth this week

0.7% on this channel, 0.0% on the category's middle channel

YouTube: The channel's latest videos

The last 15 videos uploaded to the channel, with today's numbers. Click a video to play it here.

Video	Uploaded	Length	Views	Per day	First day	Likes	Comments
10/10 prompt for debugging.	November 10, 2026	1:19 short	12,880	32,161	12,880 (7 hours)	842	21
How Many Developers Can ONE Git Server Handle?	November 10, 2026	12:24	26,158	36,632	26,158 (13 hours)	462	67
Deploying a Vector Database	November 9, 2026	1:28 short	16,698	13,073	13,595	683	16
November 8, 2026	November 8, 2026	1:15 short	27,852	6,568	17,248	783	25
I tested EVERY Javascript runtime (surprising)	November 6, 2026	14:48	46,886	2,000	32,156	987	184
Don’t study for interviews alone	November 3, 2026	0:32 short	12,182	314	8,104	244	10
218 Developers COMPETE to max out a $12 server	November 3, 2026	21:35	125,455	2,338	72,015	2,050	241
Optimistic Locking	November 1, 2026	1:00 short	84,918	221	40,810	2,180	47
Lean vs $12 server?!	October 30, 2026	1:28 short	446,301	697	177,546	12,795	216
How many users can a $20 server support with NORMAL framewo…	October 30, 2026	14:01	96,373	272	71,368	1,578	213
Micro services vs Monolith 🥊	October 29, 2026	1:41 short	94,759	291	53,102	2,328	106
The Outbox Pattern	October 28, 2026	0:48 short	63,224	190	33,245	1,412	36
Can ONE server support 1,000,000 users?	October 27, 2026	9:43	126,372	196	87,503	2,351	264
What is connection pooling?	October 26, 2026	1:09 short	81,735	306	49,221	2,220	51
How many users can you support?	October 25, 2026	1:08 short	46,691	54	28,612	1,813	20

Audience engagement

likes per 1,000 views

25.0 in the category: 8.1

comments per 1,000 views

1.2 in the category: 0.6

a video's usual first day on this channel

65,694 views

short vs long

10 short (up to 3 minutes), 5 long
average views per short video: 88,724
average views per long video: 84,248

YouTube: What happened on the channel in the last 30 days

The days when the channel's numbers left the ordinary.

1. October 18, 2026Weekly growthThe channel went from 120,000 to 127,000 subscribers that week.
2. October 17, 2026Weekly growthThe channel went from 120,000 to 126,000 subscribers that week.
3. October 16, 2026Weekly growthThe channel went from 118,000 to 125,000 subscribers that week.
4. October 15, 2026Weekly growthThe channel went from 118,000 to 124,000 subscribers that week.
5. October 15, 2026Views jumpThe whole channel ran that day at 584,032 views a day, 3 times a normal day (194,218).
6. October 14, 2026Video taking offI Asked Expert Programmers to Max Out a $12 Server The video opened at a pace of 422,523 views a day, 6.8 times a normal first day on this channel (61,786).Read the story
7. October 14, 2026Weekly growthThe channel went from 117,000 to 123,000 subscribers that week.