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by aleph_minus_one 1087 days ago
> There's a rough rule of thumb that you should expect to redesign your system to handle each order of magnitude increase in scale

I rather know the rule: by good engineering, you can modify a system to handle a one magnitude increase with respect what it was designed for. As soon as a two magnitude increase can occur, you better redesign the system.