> worrying about scalability before having a single user While you don’t want to do something really dumb that’s hard to get out of from day 1, I can’t agree m

> worrying about scalability before having a single user While you don’t want to do something really dumb that’s hard to get out of from day 1, I can’t agree more. Last year I was asked to help with an open source medical devices project for Covid, and when the guy writing the infrastructure said he had a microservices design in place I took that as a queue to exit the project. They hadn’t even validated that people needed what they thought they should build, and here was a guy about to do a ton of work for scale that likely never came.