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very hard to undersell just how bad this is. Now every action on your application it running database queries.

• theptip 4y ago
  Which is totally fine for most early-stage applications.
  • edgyquant 4y ago
    It is, until it isn’t I suppose. I’ve worked at places where the ORM (or equivalent) was nicely utilized and we were able to cache things via redis as we got bogged down then migrate to a multi-layer structure with caching based on date + popularity across a DB cluster, nodql store and browser store (this was really nice.) But: I’ve also had to deal with “SPAs” that evolved a few dozen independent routes a massive backend all coupled to the database with no ORM/class layer. This was not so nice so refactor when it came time to scale