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Vijay Bhalae
Love the "Database is the bottleneck" point. It’s easy to get lost in micro-benchmarks, but real-world latency almost always comes down to the query.
Syed Ahmer Shah
Hey, I’m Ahmer — a Software Engineering student & full-stack dev sharing projects, dev logs, and lessons from the code trenches.
We can argue about millisecond differences in runtime execution all day, but one missing index in your database will dwarf all of that. It’s the reality of production apps that micro-benchmarks often ignore.