"Take that, NoSQL guys! I’m NoEverything!" I actually LOL'd when I read that. Which is kind of embarrassing since it's really quiet in the office today :-) Gr

"Take that, NoSQL guys! I’m NoEverything!" I actually LOL'd when I read that. Which is kind of embarrassing since it's really quiet in the office today :-) Great post. I get analysis paralysis all the time when I think of new web apps. The idea that I won't have the perfectly scalable architecture (horizontally AND vertically) with all the cool infrastructure is enough to overwhelm. That's because I also skip to the scenario of "What if my app gets real popular and then starts crashing all the time, and then everyone stops visiting while I try to learn how to set up nginx with memcached and ... ad nauseam." Sometimes it gets me stuck and sometimes I remember to take baby steps like you wrote about.