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The issue I keep encountering, again and again, is that you really have no idea what to scale until you need to. For instance, I had a client where a very larg
by Ensorceled 10y ago
The issue I keep encountering, again and again, is that you really have no idea what to scale until you need to.
For instance, I had a client where a very large online retailer wanted a RESTful API into my client's data that they could call directly from their customer's browser. Before the Black Friday Freeze. This was a completely unforeseen requirement and the solution was NOT to scale the client's overall website to handle the 5-10K requests per second but create a micro service on a new stack that could.
Your startup will pivot, sign weird deals and change your target customer. Optimizing for scale early doesn't help, getting to the point where you know you need to pivot does.