Building Products That Scale: Our Tech Stack Philosophy

# Building Products That Scale At Bavand, we've learned that the technology choices you make at the start can either enable or constrain your growth. Here's our philosophy on building products that scale. ## Start Simple, Design for Scale We don't over-engineer from day one. Instead, we: 1. **Build the MVP fast**: Get to market quickly to validate assumptions 2. **Design architecture thoughtfully**: Make decisions that won't paint us into a corner 3. **Invest in observability**: You can't improve what you can't measure ## Our Core Tech Principles - **Boring technology for core systems**: PostgreSQL over the latest database trend - **Modern for developer experience**: Next.js, TypeScript, and Tailwind - **Cloud-native**: AWS/GCP with infrastructure as code - **API-first**: Everything is an API, enabling future flexibility ## The 10x Rule We design every system to handle 10x current load without major re-architecture. This means: - Database schemas that can be sharded - Stateless services that can be horizontally scaled - Caching strategies built in from the start ## Real-World Example When we built GiftPass, we knew holiday seasons would create massive spikes. By designing for scale from day one, we handled 50x normal traffic during Nowruz without a single incident.