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document.write("When you’re operating at scale, pushing the needle means a complex, ");
document.write("coordinated dance of well-applied technologies, development ");
document.write("techniques, statistical analyses, intra-organizational communication, ");
document.write("judicious engineering management, speedy and reliable ");
document.write("operationalization of hardware and software, vigilant monitoring, and ");
document.write("so forth. Scaling is <em>hard</em>. So hard, in fact, that the ability ");
document.write("to scale is a deep competitive advantage of the sort that you can’t ");
document.write("simply go out and download, copy, purchase, or steal. ");
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document.write("<em>(<a href=\"http://al3x.net/2010/07/27/node.html\">Alex Payne</a>)</em> ");
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