Scaling is a problem that happens once you get users, and by that point you can pay real engineers to solve your scaling problems. Scaling is a phantom bugaboo

Scaling is a problem that happens once you get users, and by that point you can pay real engineers to solve your scaling problems. Scaling is a phantom bugaboo used by engineers to help massage their egos that some punk-nosed kid is kicking their ass at capitalism using Ruby or PHP or Node or Perl with a shitty, inferior product...that happens to have more users and mindshare and potential then that engineer's pet project, oh-so-carefully engineered and constructed. If you set out to build Twitter or Faceobook or Snapchat or whatever at scale, from the start, you're doomed. But, cranking out a stupid little Rails app with enough hook and flair to get your initial userbase and attract investors is pretty much just bolting together gems and bootstrap. Worse is better, the crowds have spoken.