Meridian Cloud's CTO on what breaks first when infrastructure scales 100x in a year.
Q: What breaks first when you scale that fast?
Not the servers — the assumptions. Every architectural shortcut you took at 1x traffic becomes a production incident at 100x. We rebuilt our data layer twice in eighteen months.
Q: How do you decide what to rebuild versus patch?
If a patch buys us more than two quarters of runway, we patch. Anything less, we rebuild properly. Technical debt compounds faster than people expect.