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Re:There's no reason for software to be slow anymore by swiftcoder on Saturday August 22, 2026 @02:44AM (#49397229)
> With a fast backend ~1-5ms response times (not even that fast).

Even though benchmarks suggest this sort of performance should be trivial, most real-world servers I have interacted with do not reliably managed to process a request, make a roundtrip to the DB, and return a response in <5ms

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Re:There's no reason for software to be slow anymore by inigyou on Saturday August 22, 2026 @09:05AM (#49399341)
But why is that?
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Re:There's no reason for software to be slow anymore by andersmurphy on Saturday August 22, 2026 @03:43PM (#49403114)
Project into sqlite on your app server is the main trick I use. Denormalize if you have to.

Hell, for a lot of projects you don't even need to get that fancy. Run a single server with an embedde database, running Go or Java and you're good to go.

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