The Algarve technology company Dengun, headquartered in Faro, is one of those responsible for the success of the Triller application which, in addition to already having 50 million users and being the great rival of Tik-Tok, convinced Donald Trump to create an account.
Dengun was hired to work on Triller's development in early 2018, when the application had 10 million users, but had trouble dealing with the growth of users.
«Our main challenge was to stabilize the infrastructure, to be able to deal with the overload caused by the activity of the application's users», highlights Miguel Rocha Fernandes, founder of the Algarve company.
Dengun developed a whole new infrastructure of corrected servers and the work of the Algarve company was recognized, having taken on the responsibility of managing the project at an international level, with a team of 30 people.
«On the application's website, Faro was highlighted as one of Triller's international delegations, alongside Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York and Paris», praises the executive director of Dengun.
The partnership between Dengun and Triller continued until March of this year, when the application received an investment of 100 million dollars.
The Algarve company helped Triller, restructuring the server infrastructure and, with that, allowed to increase the number of users supported simultaneously, until receiving this funding.
Triller is an application for iOS and Android that allows the creation of short videos and which is currently the main “rival” of the TikTok app.
In recent weeks, Triller has managed to reach the number one spot for the most downloaded applications in 85 countries.
Donald Trump, President of the United States of America, recently created an account in the app, joining Kevin Hart, Vanessa Hudgens or Victoria Secret models.
Dengun is one of the companies that integrate the Algarve Tech Hub, a project that involves companies and public partners and that wants to promote in the region the creation of an environment that attracts digital nomads e remote workers and promote the fixation of more intellectual capital in the areas of technology and technological innovation companies.
Miguel Rocha Fernandes considers that, «if we manage to create an ecosystem that is sufficiently advanced in certain areas of specialization in knowledge, to give rise to some “unicorns”, what impact would that have on the economy? Information and Communication Technologies can, in the medium term, produce as much of what tourism already produces for the Algarve and Portugal, without being hostage to market fluctuations or situations such as the pandemic».
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