Most people jump to an extreme hyperbole instead of the reality what they're grappling with. Big-O is just that algorithmatised. Many software systems must be d

Most people jump to an extreme hyperbole instead of the reality what they're grappling with. Big-O is just that algorithmatised. Many software systems must be designed to anticipate orders of magnitude growth in scale. However, I'm not sure about how most software systems grow -- not sure anyone really knows. We all have narratives about it, but it's a small, small subset of projects I know about that have an order of magnitude different number of users than when I first learned about them (other than moving to effectively 0).