Shopify: modular monolith, $100B market cap.
Stack Overflow: vertical scaling, 100M+ developers.
Basecamp: 8 servers, left the cloud entirely.

The next time someone says monoliths do not scale, share this list.

Every one of these companies measured before they decided. They did not follow convention. They followed arithmetic.

What other companies belong on this list?

#softwarearchitecture #softwaredevelopment #economics

https://simplicityfirstphilosophy.substack.com/p/the-architecture-tax