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Intuition is a double-edged sword. A blessing and a curse as it were. Intuition is knowing something with a reasonable sense of certainty without any justification for why you know it. It's this inability to clearly explain yourself when acting on intuition that is frustrating to you and those around you. Sometimes people will just trust your instincts but other times they will challenge you. There are many outcomes of such challenges. You may fail to convince anybody of your instincts. But, there are times when the challenge will lead you to a better understanding of your intuition. And that is exactly how I arrived at a simple realization of how performance and scale balanced to build usable, high volume web sites and services.