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> At scale People often overestimate how often the average website needs to worry about scale. And how easy it is to fix the times you come close.
by andybak 4y ago
> At scale
People often overestimate how often the average website needs to worry about scale.
And how easy it is to fix the times you come close.
- ryanisnan 4y agoI completely agree, except for the last line. It is in my experience very hard to post-hoc get people to care about query performance. Organizationally and technically. In a complicated monolith at scale, de-tangling the ORM is a multi-years long project. Edited to say: as for the average website, I do completely agree. For the unique website that will scale as well, I likely would still 95/100 recommend the ORM, but my experience has taught me that there be some pain on the road.
- fbdab103 4y agoInstagram uses Django, so I think it is possible to make anything work.