Most investment platforms don’t fail because they can’t scale. They fail because everything scales together. In regulated investment environments, scale doesn’t arrive neatly. It comes in bursts: market volatility, reporting deadlines, compliance reviews, portfolio queries; all hitting the system at once. When architecture is tightly coupled, these spikes don’t just slow one function down. They slow everything. This is where many systems begin … Continue reading Why Independence Matters More Than Scale in Investment Software Architecture
