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by NightlyDev 2898 days ago
I find it fun to thinker with high performance and high scalability designs, but I, as most others, have no need for it.

Start out small, make efficient systems and have scalability in the back of your head when doing so. Don't do as so many others: "Oh, this lib seems popular, let's just use that! Heck, the cart sometimes takes 8 minutes to load, we need to add more nodes on AWS!"

Yeah, stuff like that happens.

At least in my book optimization usually beats scalability as the place to start for more performance.