Let me just start with the reality that we didn’t want to leave WordPress like every other startup. We have been running our site on WordPress for the last 6 years now. We have a clearly defined plugin setup; it has boring deployments, but it is good, and it worked perfectly until we required scalability. The loopholes in WordPress didn’t show up all at once; it was something like a slow drip. It came with a security patch that broke a plugin, a Lighthouse score that wouldn't budge no matter what we tried. A staging sync that wiped three weeks of content edits on a Friday afternoon. Each problem had a fix. But after six years, the fixes had fixes, and the whole thing felt less like a website and more like a Jenga tower we were scared to touch. We ship web products for a living. A slow, fragile site doesn't just hurt us internally, it shows up in client conversations, in missed deadlines, in that low-grade anxiety before every push to production. We couldn't keep patching around the real problem.…