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by domnit
6672 days ago
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What the advice misses is that even at an early stage, you need decisions in place that allow scaling. For example, if you buy 1 truck for your one-person shipping company, you can move 1 container at a time. Adding a second truck lets you move 2 containers. 37signals is smart--they built their software so that it could grow to 2 servers--but they left that out of their advice. There must be a path from simple to complex. |
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This is somewhat debatable -- all software can be grown to multiple nodes, it's more a question of how much work is involved.
They built their software to meet needs. Then, later on, they worried about the other stuff. That's a good way to determine whether the other stuff is worth worrying about.
See also the WebVan analogy for an example of the converse.