I think there are definitely lessons to be learnt about building for scale yet being nimble at start. I.e if you are on GCS/AWS you can build something that costs 10’s/month and can be scaled relatively easy to handle millions of customers if such a thing were to happen.
Kind of boils down to simple things. Put assets in S3 or GCS. Have DB separate to your app, preferably if it’s in prod and you have paying clients then have at-least 3 replicas. So if one goes down or you need to do some upgrades, everything goes smooth.
You probably want to dockerize your app so you can deploy the same thing to stage and prod. It’s scary how very few companies have a proper staging environment.
But none of this matters. The first part is dead simple but hard to do “build something that people want”. Everything is secondary and useless if you’re building stuff that nobody wants.
Kind of boils down to simple things. Put assets in S3 or GCS. Have DB separate to your app, preferably if it’s in prod and you have paying clients then have at-least 3 replicas. So if one goes down or you need to do some upgrades, everything goes smooth.
You probably want to dockerize your app so you can deploy the same thing to stage and prod. It’s scary how very few companies have a proper staging environment.
But none of this matters. The first part is dead simple but hard to do “build something that people want”. Everything is secondary and useless if you’re building stuff that nobody wants.