/cs:cto-review — CTO Forcing Questions Command: Pressure-tests architecture and engineering scaling decisions. Six questions to surface the next scaling cliff before you hit it. When to Run - Before approving a major architecture change - Before doubling the engineering team - Before a build-vs-buy decision $100K/year - When a system is showing reliability stress (SLOs missed) - Before committing to a new platform / language / DB The Six CTO Questions 1. Scaling Cliff Where does the current architecture break, in terms of users / requests / data volume? - Be specific. "It breaks at 10× curren…