I'm Going To Scale My Foot Up Your Ass

“You don’t need to worry about scalability on your Rails-over-Mysql application because nobody is going to use it.  Really.  Believe me.  You’re going to get, at most, 1,000 people on your app, and maybe 1% of them will be 7-day active.  Scalability is not your problem, getting people to give a shit is.”