Is not doing stupid s%$t an optimization? (lol) I'm reminded of the reddit articles a few years back when they were talking about moving to AWS and having to b

Is not doing stupid s%$t an optimization? (lol) I'm reminded of the reddit articles a few years back when they were talking about moving to AWS and having to batch database requests to maintain their database perf. Apparently, at the time they were literally sending tens/hundreds of thousands of database queries for each page load request for a logged in user because each comment was collecting all its up/down votes and adding them up rather than just having a per comment karma attached to the comment. This is what happens when you hire a whole bunch of recent grads that frankly have no idea how to write code, and think they are the smartest people on the planet when it comes to distributed systems.