Fast-scaling companies face specific challenges such as attracting and retaining developer talent, ensuring high development productivity, building scalable processes and workflows, and addressing cybersecurity threats. Tech leaders must address these growing pains to maintain the company's growth. Solutions include focusing on developer experience, automating mundane chores, investing in self-service infrastructure tooling, adopting product thinking for internal technical platforms, setting aside time to review processes and workflows, planning ahead for future tech needs, and ensuring data security through a security-by-design approach. Managed data platforms like Aiven can help ease these growing pains by outsourcing some of the vital steps involved in addressing these challenges.