As I see it, if we get enough traffic to be worried about scaling issues we'll deal with it then. Django isn't terribly designed and going in and hacking multi-db and sharding in should take less than a week from a competent developer.
Discussing this before starting a startup sort of feels like trying to figure out how to do salary for hundreds of employees before getting your first one.
I agree it's worth discussing (especially if you're unsure about future malleability of the web framework to your needs), and I apologize if I was excessively curt.
Discussing this before starting a startup sort of feels like trying to figure out how to do salary for hundreds of employees before getting your first one.