Fun Stuff: They never thought about Scaling
Scaling was an afterthought for some of the most scalable systems of today. Entrepreneurs were not really trying to scale and scalability was only introduced when everything else failed.
A lot of entrepreneurs launched their products without considering scale. They probably never expected to reach that critical mass where scale would ever be an issue. However, keep in mind that these were the pre-cloud era. These days, if you are not using a cloud provider like AWS, Azure or Google, it could become a serious competitive disadvantage if your product suddenly gets ...
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