I don't want to be negative, but this post reads like a list of things that I want to avoid in my career. I did a brief stint in cloud stuff at a FAANG and I don't care to go back to it.
Right now I'm engineer No. 1 at a current startup just doing DDD with a Django monolith. I'm still pretty Jr. and I'm wondering if there's a way to scale without needing to get into all of the things the author of this article mentions. Is it possible to get to a $100M valuation without needing all of this extra stuff? I realize it varies from business to business, but if anyone has examples of successes where people just used simple architecture's I'd appreciate it.
Right now I'm engineer No. 1 at a current startup just doing DDD with a Django monolith. I'm still pretty Jr. and I'm wondering if there's a way to scale without needing to get into all of the things the author of this article mentions. Is it possible to get to a $100M valuation without needing all of this extra stuff? I realize it varies from business to business, but if anyone has examples of successes where people just used simple architecture's I'd appreciate it.