I think that's the author's point: the industry tends to act as if complex, scalable architectures are inevitable if you have a useful service or want a viable

I think that's the author's point: the industry tends to act as if complex, scalable architectures are inevitable if you have a useful service or want a viable business. You can get a lot of mileage out of essentially any backend technology running on recent-ish hardware, provided the devs know what they're doing. > Our backend today is more sophisticated but our philosophy to scaling is simple, avoiding premature optimization.