alt Hacker NewsIt’s especially easy to waste money on databases.
People just throw more compute power (ie money) at performance problems, rather than fixing their queries or making better use of indices.
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cies • yesterday at 9:09 AM
And do not consider owning the hardware. See what hardware you can buy for that money.
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You can see this in the article here, where they are just using whatever garbage queries Prisma spits out.
I’ve contended for a long time that ORMs and their ilk automatically building queries is an antipattern for anything but small data scale. At any reasonable size of db, you’re going to need to know sql well enough to write optimized queries anyway. There’s essential complexity in the DB queries, which ORMs can only hide for so long.