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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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