Scoped to the problem you actually have.

Most technology recommendations start from what's being sold, not what's needed. That's backwards. Before we suggest anything, we want to understand the actual problem — the workload, the team, the growth you're planning for — not the problem a product happens to solve.

Over-scoping is the quieter failure mode, because it doesn't look like a mistake at first. It looks like "being safe." But every bit of unused capacity still has to be paid for, patched, licensed, and maintained — and someone still has to understand it well enough to support it.

Under-scoping is the louder failure mode: systems that buckle the first time real usage shows up, because nobody sized them against what the business would actually throw at them.

Right-sizing means neither. It's a ten-person shop getting a ten-person solution, and a thousand-person enterprise getting one built for its own scale — not a blanket assumption that bigger, newer, or more expensive is automatically safer.

Getting the scope right up front is also the cheapest place to get it right. Fixing an over-built system later means untangling complexity nobody wanted. Fixing an under-built one means downtime nobody planned for.