[swasheck]

in all my years doing database tuning/admin/reliability/etc, performance have overwhelmingly been in the bad query/bad data pattern categories. the data platform is rarely the issue

[tosti]

The worst offenders I've seen were looping over a shitty ORM

[cobbzilla]

hey don’t forget, that shitty ORM also empowers you to write beautiful, fluent code that, under the hood, generates a 12-way join that brings down your entire database.

[edoceo]

And that is true across languages.