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Stop Designing Your Web Application for Millions of Users When You Dont Have 100
It’s easy to get carried away when you’re building a new web app. You’ve got big ideas, you picture millions of users flocking to your platform, and you start imagining the kind of infrastructure needed to handle all that traffic. So, you build for scale from day one—optimising databases, setting up powerful servers, and ensuring everything is robust enough for massive growth.
You’ve got big ideas, you picture millions of users flocking to your platform, and you start imagining the kind of infrastructure needed to handle all that traffic. If you design your app to handle millions of users before you’ve even got your first 100, you’re making decisions based on assumptions rather than real data. If your early users are running into bugs, confusing interfaces, or missing features, it won’t matter how many servers you’ve got ready to handle millions more.
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