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by GuB-42 1704 days ago
The future will be different.

A lot of successful businesses start with things that are not scalable, and it is a strength, not a weakness. If you start a social network for instance, you can't beat Facebook at its own game. You have to do something that Facebook can't do because it is too big. Scalability problems will be tackled as you grow.

Among the many things Facebook can't do is running its service on a single database. It makes things much harder on them, thankfully, you are much smaller than Facebook and you can. Take that advantage.