[selcuka]

> It sounds like poorly designed database queries with unindexed joins.

I find it amusing that you think every database operation imaginable can be performed in less than 20 seconds if we throw in a few indexes. Some things are slow no matter how much you optimise them.

The GP could have implemented them as async endpoints, or callbacks, but obviously they've already considered those options.

[throwup238]

It's the kind of prescriptive cargo culting that is responsible for a significant fraction of pain involved in software engineering, right up there with DRY and KISS and shitty management.

I bet the GP abstracts out a function the second there's a third callsite too, regardless of where it's used or how it will evolved - only to add an options argument and blow up the cyclomatic complexity three days later.