When you are building a startup, there is always the question, "will this scale?" or "in the event of an investment or going viral are we ready to scale automat

When you are building a startup, there is always the question, "will this scale?" or "in the event of an investment or going viral are we ready to scale automatically ?" I think that there is a lot of worries around this, it conditions technology choices, sometimes pushing early optimisations, and it is hard because you don't have the data on how many concurrent users your product will have. The best you can do is to extrapolate from you current data or other products data. So many people end up following a recipe, it could be Firebase recipe, AWS Fargate, Serverless... you name it. Recipes that promise limitless autoscale. I think indeed is distracting and premature, but again is hard to avoid it, if the premise is that there will be a massive growth overnight, which is imposible to predict that will potentially kill us, and we have to be ready.