Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. I've been part of many projects that couldn't scale because lack of forethought meant there was a nasty implici

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. I've been part of many projects that couldn't scale because lack of forethought meant there was a nasty implicit O(n^2) thing going on when it could have easily been designed to be O(n log n). Almost all of these projects were killed with CYA hand waving about "just not fast enough".