It is amazing how much a well tuned and properly functioning database can handle. At my last job, this was a huge hurdle I was tasked with handling. They're CQ

It is amazing how much a well tuned and properly functioning database can handle. At my last job, this was a huge hurdle I was tasked with handling. They're CQRSish design slowed so many things down through needless complication or hidden inefficiencies. People always jump to "we need to scale and this will make it faster" when the real answer is often, "how about we focus on some fundamentals and just make our code more efficient"