// Hacker Noon · 5 March 2026

Ship First, Scale Never: Marvin’s Anti-Overengineering Guide

You have zero users and a 12-service microarchitecture. The repos that make money run SQLite on one server for under €10/month. The repos with Kubernetes have READMEs. Ship the boring thing. Scale when the problems are real and not rehearsed.

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