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They cover what broke as larger customers onboarded, how they discovered the real limits of their data ingestion pipeline, the tradeoffs between feature flags and database configuration, and where AI tooling fits when the software handles financial transactions. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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