https://www.onlymaj.com/tags/scaling/ Recent content in Scaling on Mo Jahani Hugo en-us Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.onlymaj.com/blog/designing-for-millions/ Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.onlymaj.com/blog/designing-for-millions/ <p>The morning it happened, I was making coffee. A small tool I&rsquo;d built to broadcast live scores had been picked up by a popular account overnight, and by 9 a.m. it was fielding more traffic in a minute than it had seen in its entire life. Nothing was technically <em>down</em>; it was just slow in a way that felt personal. That day taught me more about systems than a year of reading ever had.</p>