Here is my take on this: 1. MVP vs. scalability: While building scalable product/s right from the MVP stage is generally a good idea, it may not be particularl

Here is my take on this: 1. MVP vs. scalability: While building scalable product/s right from the MVP stage is generally a good idea, it may not be particularly beneficial or applicable to most scenarios. I mean a) how many typical startups happen to scale to 500k or 1M users within days from launch? b) most founders would be needing an MVP mainly for market validation, as a proof-of-concept and for the purpose of attracting seed/startup funding c) many founders - especially non-coders - may not have the luxury/resources to have scalability built in to the MVP 2. The original story goes to reconfirm my belief, based on multiple past experiences going back many years, that database continues to remain a (huge) bottleneck for web apps with high traffic volumes and max possible database optimization (right from config tune-up to table structure design/normalization to query optimization) can pay huge dividends in most cases.