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Re:Optimizing Your Web App 100x Is Like Adding 99 Servers by vendiddy on Saturday November 21, 2020 @10:15AM (#25170136)
I agree. One heuristic is the specs of our computers 20 years ago had.

Those computers were an order of magnitude slower. Yet many equivalent apps today run at about the same speed.

Performance is not being prioritized. And I suppose back then, devs had no choice given the resource constraints they had.

I've seen many times devs paying for larger databases instance without first even taking a few hours to try and optimize their queries.

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Re:Optimizing Your Web App 100x Is Like Adding 99 Servers by xxpor on Saturday November 21, 2020 @10:42AM (#25170262)
The depressing part of all of this is performance optimization is really fun! I love sitting down with flamegraphs and other profiler output and making things faster.
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