While I agree with the premise, I've seen this mindset get out of hand and stress people out. My anecdote involves a co-worker looking at our Azure metrics at a

While I agree with the premise, I've seen this mindset get out of hand and stress people out. My anecdote involves a co-worker looking at our Azure metrics at all times of the day and having a mini panic attack when requests drop off or we get a an uptick of a few hundred milliseconds of response time. Most of this is due to scaling out and resolves itself in a short amount of time. Regardless, he's convinced something else is causing it and taking measures that actively make our code worse and less understandable all in the name of "performance".