[mikeocool]

People think they want infinitely scalable solutions. But I think what they fail realize is that by the time they actually hit a scale where it matter they’re going to have to change so much about their infra that prematurely using the scalable solution didn’t really but them much except a bunch of headaches when they didn’t have scale.

[foobarian]

At our shop we're still cleaning up load-bearing tech debt 20 years later, a lot of which seems to have been built with an expectation "nah no way will this still be running next year"