Certainly it wasn't built for scale.
These are fundamental challenges to a commissioning system increasingly built for scale, competition, standardised outcomes and unit price.
The proprietary switches are not built for scale.
Tumblr is very much one of the social media startups that was built for scale first, revenue later.
It utilises a very similar architecture to previous tools but is specifically built for scale, with notid instances having an expected capacity of 100,000 service checks per minute.
For-profit enterprises are built for scale, and when they tie social impact into their business models, that impact scales when they do.
UnboundID's repository is also built for scale, meaning instead of hundreds or thousands of entries, it could support tens or even hundreds of millions.
The other was when a WebVan executive infuriated by a story I wrote that the business wasn't defensible enough screamed at me "We have built for scale!
"We're already seeing thousands of uploads from new iPhones, but we're built for scale and receive more than 20 hours of video every minute, so overall quite confident that iPhone users will have a great experience sharing via YouTube," Walk says.
On the other, this is also a sign of some ongoing consolidation in the travel start-up sector: with many services built for scale on thin margins on sales or large ad buys, if you're a big property you will be looking to get bigger; and if you're a smaller player you will struggle.
And in a sense the infrastructure for growth is already in place: the company already provides detection on its platform for 150 different languages, and is built for scaling.
