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Alex Barrera has a very interesting post about how frustrating it is to figure out that you have a problem and how much trouble it is to fix it after the product is live. I am there, I am suffering the redesign phase (twice now). It’s hard, it’s lonely, it’s discouraging and frustrating, but it needs to be done. I just wrote this post so that outsiders can get a glimpse of what is it to be there and how it affects the whole company, not just the tech department. Scalability problems aren’t something you can discard as being ONLY technical, it’s roots might be technical but its effects will shake the whole company. The post actually reminded me of this post by Marton Trencseni which talks about the phases of improvement in scalability architecture a product goes through and digs a little deeper into what could have prevented it. For startups or for companies which are just prototyping new ideas, their goals can sometimes be just to “test the waters”, and the pr