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raw_anon_1111yesterday at 5:28 PM1 replyview on HN

And 95%+ developers aren’t writing performance sensitive code. In my career, most bottlenecks I’ve seen are because of bad database design, network latency, or other infrastructure related issuesor in the cloud days startup latency for anything serviceless.

Yes I know every millisecond a company like Google can shave off, is multiplied by billions of transactions a day and can save real money on infrastructure. But even at a second tier company like Salesforce, it probably doesn’t matter


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rileymichaelyesterday at 8:42 PM

it all matters. if more people took pride in their craft and understood the behavior of their tools, modern software wouldn’t be so horrid

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