It doesn't help that the server application is a behemoth, the logic required to put visualisations together is often baffling, and optimisation is the other 99

It doesn't help that the server application is a behemoth, the logic required to put visualisations together is often baffling, and optimisation is the other 99% of the game to make it usable from an end users point of view. You can often do far better, with far less in this realm.