[delian66]

Another developer: "...our stack was generating over a hundred SQL queries, all of which were being performed sequentially because we don't have a good per-request concurrency story in this tech stack. I just bypassed the ORM and wrote a slightly more complex SQL query, so that there is no more N+1 query problem in the backend. The latency of this end point was cut by several orders of magnitude, and our database is not overloaded by parallel inefficient queries, run by clients with 'great concurrency stories'."

[Izkata]

Or, "here's a completely supported not-well-enough-known ORM feature that does that, that I learned about when it looked like I wasn't doing any work".

[cellularmitosis]

From a technical perspective, bypassing the ORM is a great solution (and if you can get the number of queries down to one, there’s no longer any need for concurrency).

Unfortunately, politically, the kind of shop which fires a dev for choosing another platform is unlikely to approve a PR which bypasses the ORM (maybe also a fireable offense!)