When it comes to building products, not everybody thinks about scale on day 1. You don’t want to be scrambling around addressing why your service has slowed down due to an unprecedented interest in your thingamajig. Making the right design choices helps you ensure that your system will scale with your traffic.

In this talk, we will take a look at an example platform and see the various decision points, trade-offs and which option makes most sense. We will cover design choices, technology choices and talk through the pros and cons of each approach.

• Type of talk: Intro