I don't disagree with anything you've stated. Explosive growth and requiring massive amounts of data storage are surely the exception not the rule.
That said, the blog post talks about enormous growth and it still fits inside Moore's Law's growth. I guess my gut is just saying it's not really that enormous in terms of startup scaling if it's still within those limits. Not to take anything away from 37Signal's success, but it feels like nothing of value was really added by this post. I present the post of a picture of 864GB of ram as supplementary evidence that is near the top of HN right now.
That said, the blog post talks about enormous growth and it still fits inside Moore's Law's growth. I guess my gut is just saying it's not really that enormous in terms of startup scaling if it's still within those limits. Not to take anything away from 37Signal's success, but it feels like nothing of value was really added by this post. I present the post of a picture of 864GB of ram as supplementary evidence that is near the top of HN right now.