I recently had an interview like this. Felt like half the answers I gave were of the form, “You can do scaling/sharding/partitioning thing X here, but once agai

I recently had an interview like this. Felt like half the answers I gave were of the form, “You can do scaling/sharding/partitioning thing X here, but once again, for an internal app I’d try really hard to avoid doing any of that”. If you’re interviewing with capable, experienced developers, they’ll appreciate that answer (at least, I got the offer on this one!)