State is the bottleneck — not throughput.
Most teams scale compute first and discover, six months later, that the real ceiling is how state is stored, shared, and replayed across operators. The fix is architectural, not infrastructural — and it's the part nobody puts on a slide.
This template demonstrates how body copy, headings, and a single emphasised pull-quote can share the same page without competing for attention.
"Three rewrites in, the bottleneck hadn't moved — only changed its name."