I agree with this article; however, there are considerations that can be made early on, to ensure an easy path for future scalability, that don't waste any time

I agree with this article; however, there are considerations that can be made early on, to ensure an easy path for future scalability, that don't waste any time or money during the project's nascency. For example, if I know I want my app to scale at some point in the future, I may opt to build it in Elixir, or I may choose to use a Riak cluster rather than of MySQL.