SCALING FROM A BILLION TO A MILLION TO ONE

Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

Initially, this developer built an LLM monitoring tool using scalable technologies like Next.js, Vercel, and PlanetScale. However, the need for compliance and on-premise deployments forced a shift to AWS, requiring a simplification of the architecture and a reduction in resource demands. Ultimately, the need for a single-user, easily installable version led to further scaling down.