Comment by Omotola Shogunle on "I turned my side-project into a startup. I'm Ido Shamun, AMA!"

Thanks for dedicating your time 🙏

The best tip about scalability is don't over-engineer. It's super hard to scale an over-engineered system. Keep everything simple. The second tip is monitoring. You will never know it's time to scale if you don't monitor. Set up proper alerting and dashboards to understand when your system misbehaves. Start changing the architecture slowly when you see that it cannot serve your users well. Don't do premature decisions, they will not help you and might stall you. Message queues such as Redis, Google Pub/Sub, Kafka, Rabbit MQ are the best design pattern for handling scalability I think. Use them wisely and they will be your best friend.
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