Understanding algorithm costs can be extremely important when building a simple CRUD app because it will help you reason how things will scale with the size of

Understanding algorithm costs can be extremely important when building a simple CRUD app because it will help you reason how things will scale with the size of the data you’ll see in the real world. It’s easy to make things that are accidentally quadratic but are fine until your big customer has 10 times the data and they suddenly aren’t fine anymore. Doesn’t mean you need to optimise everything, but it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t think about this stuff.