Why Scaling the Whole Monolith Almost Always Costs More Than Scaling What Matters

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When a SaaS Founder Decided to "Scale the Monolith" - Alex's Story Alex ran a growing SaaS company that had one codebase, one deployment pipeline, and one unhappy ops engineer who could recite the whole system's startup script from memory