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In my opinion, if those influential programmers actually architected around some concrete metrics like 1,000 TPS and 10K daily users, they would end up with much simpler systems.

The problem I see is much more about extremely vague notions of scalability, trends, best practices, clean code, and so on. For example we need Kafka, because Kafka is for the big boys like us. Not because the alternatives couldn’t handle the actual numbers.

CV-driven development is a much bigger issue than people picking overly ambitious target numbers.