Strongly agreed, I'm not sure why the post conflated these two very different issues. Scaling has almost nothing to do with five 9s uptime, with the exception t

Strongly agreed, I'm not sure why the post conflated these two very different issues. Scaling has almost nothing to do with five 9s uptime, with the exception that if you can't scale, once you reach a certain number of users your uptime will be closer to 0% than 100%.