Very relatable to a recent interview experience I had with a popular freelance platform for the backend developer position.

I never worked at a FAANG-ish company, and in the course of my 10-year career I spent most of my efforts on stopping the organizations from building the wrong thing in the first place, not on "making things scaleable" from the get-go. My view is that if you have product-market fit, you can throw money on the problem for a very, very long time and do just fine, so everyone in the org should focus on achieving PMF as soon as possible.

The question of "How would you scale a Django service to 10M requests per day" came up, and my answer to just scale components vertically and purchase stronger servers obviously was not satisfactory.