Building for Scale: The Infrastructure Decisions Every Startup Gets Wrong

Most startups do not fall over because the idea was wrong. They fall over because the systems underneath were built for a stage the company left behind six months ago. This session is about the infrastructure decisions founders and early engineering teams make quietly and pay for loudly. Which database to start with and when it stops being enough. When a monolith is still the right answer and what actually forces a split. How much cloud spend is worth it early, and where it turns into a bill nobody can explain. What to build, what to buy, and what to postpone. It also gets into the parts that only show up under load: pipelines that are fine until traffic multiplies, AI features bolted onto systems never designed for them, migrations attempted a year too late, and the on-call cost of every shortcut taken early. The format is open and primarily driven by audience questions, so bring the decision you are stuck on right now. Whether you are picking your first stack or trying to hold one together at scale, you leave with inputs from people in Hyderabad who have run into the same walls.