It worked with ten users. Then a hundred showed up at once.

What happens to a vibe-coded app when it suddenly gets popular, the two ways to handle it, and why "works for ten" isn't "works for ten thousand".…

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Scaling is handling more load without breaking

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You scale up (a bigger machine) or out (more machines sharing the load)

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The first thing to break is usually the database or code whose cost grows with the data

What this means for your app

Don't pay to scale before you need to, but do test with realistic load before launch. If a page gets slower as its data grows, that's a scaling problem in the code; ask your AI tool whether a slow…

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