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Is "Does it Need to Scale?" a Question We Should Ask More Regularly?

Tech Talks by Harvey Nash

Jun 8, 202600:24:23Business

Whilst at Google, Avery Pennarun realised that building for "Internet scale" made easy problems harder. So he left to build Tailscale, focusing on the long tail of developers who just need computers to connect. Avery tal...

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Is "Does it Need to Scale?" a Question We Should Ask More Regularly? is an episode from Tech Talks by Harvey Nash. Whilst at Google, Avery Pennarun realised that building for "Internet scale" made easy problems harder. So he left to build T...

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Published Jun 8, 2026, 00:24:23 long, audio available.

Is "Does it Need to Scale?" a Question We Should Ask More Regularly?

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