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Building Technology at Scale

The document outlines strategies for building technology at scale, emphasizing the importance of adapting tech decisions to the startup's stage. It highlights the need for speed and feedback in early stages, while addressing common pitfalls and the evolution of architecture as a company grows. Additionally, it discusses team dynamics, infrastructure maturity, and the significance of security and compliance in scaling operations.

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Building Technology at Scale

The document outlines strategies for building technology at scale, emphasizing the importance of adapting tech decisions to the startup's stage. It highlights the need for speed and feedback in early stages, while addressing common pitfalls and the evolution of architecture as a company grows. Additionally, it discusses team dynamics, infrastructure maturity, and the significance of security and compliance in scaling operations.

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Building Technology at Scale

• - Why scale matters (tech, team, org)


• - Brief overview: from 0 → 1 → 10 → 100
• - Tailoring tech decisions to your startup stage
Build for Learning, Not Perfection
(Early Stage)
• - Speed and feedback > perfection
• - Avoid premature optimization
• - Use frameworks that accelerate delivery
Architecture Principles for Early
Stage
• - Monoliths are OK
• - Use managed services
• - Choose simple, boring tech
Team & Process (Early Stage)
• - Small, full-stack teams
• - Founders coding
• - Minimal processes (Trello/Notion > JIRA)
Common Early Pitfalls
• - Overengineering (e.g., microservices)
• - Chasing the perfect stack
• - Skipping observability
When Scale Hits (Growth Stage)
• - Infra can't keep up
• - Tech debt piles up
• - Onboarding is hard
• - Incidents increase
Evolving Architecture
• - Monolith → modular → services
• - DDD & boundaries
• - Queues, caching, scaling DBs
Infra & DevOps Maturity
• - IaC (Terraform, Pulumi)
• - CI/CD pipelines
• - Cost-aware infra
• - High availability
Data & Observability
• - Monitoring, Tracing, Logging
• - Introduce SLOs/SLAs
• - Centralized data pipelines
Team & Org Scaling
• - Split product vs. platform teams
• - Hire EMs and Tech Leads
• - Docs, onboarding, code standards
Security, Compliance & Reliability
• - SOC2, GDPR, HIPAA
• - Incident response
• - Secrets management
What Not to Do
• - Rewrites under pressure
• - Hiring too fast
• - Ignoring developer experience
What Successful Startups Do
• - Internal tooling
• - Code quality & reviews
• - Cross-functional ownership
The Path Forward
• - Tech strategy evolves with business
• - Balance speed vs. scale
• - Scaling is about people too
Q&A
• Questions & Discussion

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