> Instead of fixing the problem, we can just scale the amount of servers (horizontal scalable yay), until the problem goes away. This works if the bad engineer

> Instead of fixing the problem, we can just scale the amount of servers (horizontal scalable yay), until the problem goes away. This works if the bad engineering causes a linear increase in scaling costs. If the bad engineering causes an N! increase or a 2^N increase in scaling requirements, then there's a good chance all the servers on the planet aren't enough. I'd say engineering is no easier to fix by throwing money at it than UX is.