Startups and The Problem Of Premature Scalaculation
| December 3, 2007 |  View for printing |
Early-Stage Startup: "We've designed the system to handle millions of users and be fault-tolerant so that there is no single point of failure and can assure our users of 99.999% uptime. We're prepared!"
Me: That's premature scalaculation. You're worrying about scalability too early. Don't blow your limited resources on preparing for success. Instead, spend them on increasing the chances that you'll actually succeed.
Apologies for the metaphor, but I wanted to use the word "premature" and decided to leverage the most widely recognized phrase with that word in it.
Posted by Dharmesh Shah
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