Lessons from Scale #5: Scale Doesn’t Break Systems — It Reveals the Real One

Fixing problems For a long time, I believed scale caused problems. Latency spikes. Weird edge cases. Workflows that worked perfectly fine yesterday suddenly melting down under load. Data inconsistencies that only showed up once customers started doing things “ wrong” — which is to say, doing things like actual humans. I don’t believe that anymore. Scale doesn’t break systems. Scale reveals the…