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The curse of prevention

Startup Lessons Learned

It’s important to invest in good architecture so that your website will scale once customers arrive. If you make that investment, and then customers arrive, and the site stays up, most companies will reward the people who built the architecture and, thus, prevented the scaling problems. Why do they harbor that paranoia?

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

Outside the world of hypothetical examples, its more important to make continual progress than to build the ultimate design. For example, at a previous virtual world company , we spent years developing an architecture to cope with millions of simultaneous users. That’s what Just-in-time Scalability is all about. One last thought.