I also see this, and I think its worse than that because so many devs concentrate only on the static expression of the code and have little understanding of wha

I also see this, and I think its worse than that because so many devs concentrate only on the static expression of the code and have little understanding of what things look like at runtime. Ironically, client-side coders are much better at this, thanks to excellent tools. Speaking of tools, server-side profiling is almost always weird and it pays to have someone show you the ropes. (Java has some of the best profiling tools, interestingly).