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by jssmith 2340 days ago
If you’ve used some heavyweight framework then performance will probably be hard to add later. If you wrote the code yourself then I’m with Knuth, it’s not a big deal to optimize it later and that’s a much better way to go.

I’ve found the following rubric helpful for building distributed systems: 1/ correctness, 2/ reliability, 3/ performance. Credit: CochroachDB team.