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by mnutt 4968 days ago
> but if you pass a certain (very unusual) level of traffic, you'll wish you'd made the extra effort

I'm not sure that's the case. Perhaps had they started out by trying to scale to their current levels they would never have gotten off the ground. When you start developing a system for a new company your largest obstacle is almost always lack of product/market fit.

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Isn't there some famous quote about premature optimisation? :-)