Startup Scaling: Averting Predictable Collapse
In a candid exchange, a CEO asked what would happen if a new service achieved massive success. The reply: the system should essentially be expected to fail in unpredictable ways.
"that would not be good"
"No this is good! It means we averted all the ways it would predictably collapse!"
"thanks kyle, i'll sleep well over the weekend now :-)"
The engineer behind the project notes that the work essentially amounts to building a service comparable in scale to Twitter or Yammer. The key difference: those companies employ roughly 15 to 20 people to handle what appears to be a one-person job here. That, they observe, should make things interesting.
