The Founder’s Blueprint: Choosing Cloud Infrastructure That Won’t Break Under Your Next 1 Million Users
In the early days of a startup, “scaling problems” feel like a luxury—a high-class headache you hope to have one day. But for a founder, the transition from 1,000 to 1,000,000 users is where most dreams go to die. It’s the “Chasm of Death” for infrastructure: a period where architectural shortcuts taken during the MVP phase suddenly turn into system-wide outages, skyrocketing cloud bills, and a demoralized engineering team spending 90% of their time “firefighting” instead of shipping features.
Scaling to a million users isn’t just about “buying more servers.” It’s about building a foundation that is modular, stateless, and automated. This blueprint will guide you through the critical cloud infrastructure decisions that ensure your growth is a success story, not a cautionary tale.
1. The Core Architectural Pivot: From Monolith to “Modular”
Most MVPs start as a Monolith—one single codebase and one database. It’s fast to build, but …
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