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Choosing Infrastructure For Growth-Stage Products
How to balance speed, resilience, and cost during scaling phases.
Feb 17, 2026OnPoint Team
Growth-stage teams need infrastructure decisions that can be revisited without costly rewrites.
Decision framework
- Start with operational simplicity.
- Add complexity only when a bottleneck is measurable.
- Keep observability in lockstep with architecture changes.
Guide
Infrastructure planning worksheet
Use this worksheet to align engineering, product, and finance before scaling decisions.
- Workload and traffic profile
- Current constraints and risks
- Cost and reliability targets
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