00 · Scale From Zero
The classic story of growing one tiny server into a system for millions of users. Each step fixes the problem the previous step created, which is exactly how you should narrate a design. Based on the progression in ByteByteGo’s chapter on this topic, summarized in our own words.
Pattern to build: Never jump to the final architecture. Start simple, find what breaks next (availability, load, latency, data size) and add exactly one component to fix it.
Start with these lessons
From first principles, with a short quiz at the end of each.