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How premature scaling creates everyday friction

I architected our system to handle millions of users but we have three hundred customers and all this over-engineering makes simple changes take forever because everything has to go through five different services.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Building for hypothetical future scale can make present-day work unnecessarily burdensome.

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