[patio11]

Scaling is more about sound architectural decisions than it is about stack.

(And it is more about "not a problem" than it is about architecture, because a gigantic proportion of all startups will never have any scaling problem to speak of, and the majority of the remainder will be able to solve theirs in fairly boring fashions.)

Almost all startups would be better served by playing around in their technology of choice looking for something that could possibly cause a scaling problem rather than planning for scaling problems.

[cageface]

Engineers sometimes remind me of the two guys that used to live next to me that spent every day tinkering with the engine of their Camaro out in the garage. I'm sure it was pretty tricked out but it also spent 9/10 of its life up on blocks instead of actually driving somewhere interesting.

[alnayyir]

Precisely why I stopped caring and focused on forward movement.