You are not going to turn into Google eventually

10/10/2025 14 min Temporada 1 Episodio 40

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Episode Synopsis

Ibrahim Diallo delivers a brutal truth bomb for startups and small teams: your "future-proof" architecture is killing your present.The 15-minute CI/CD pipeline for a service nobody usedWhy microservices turn into a debugging pilgrimage without Google's resourcesThe "Formula 1 for grocery shopping" analogy for over-engineeringHow chasing hypothetical billions of users makes you slower todayWhy your greatest asset is agility, not premature optimizationA liberating case for building what you need—not what you think you'll need in a fantasy future.Key Quote: "Don't architect for a hypothetical future of billions. Architect for the reality of your talented small team.""This is the direct cost of building for a scale you will never reach. It’s the architectural version of buying a Formula 1 car to do your grocery shopping.""We operate under a dangerous assumption that our companies are inevitably on a path to become the next Google or Meta. So we build like they do... It won't. It just present-proofs us.""Suddenly, 'pinpointing the error' is no longer a simple task. It’s a pilgrimage. You journey through logging systems, trace IDs, and distributed dashboards, hoping for an epiphany.""Don’t architect for a hypothetical future of billions of users. Architect for the reality of your talented small team.""When you're small, your greatest asset is agility. Excessive process stifles this inherent flexibility."