You're absolutely right. In my project, we were using a Java API to get some numbers from a huge database, but the calls took up way to many resources (time and

You're absolutely right. In my project, we were using a Java API to get some numbers from a huge database, but the calls took up way to many resources (time and memory). As an experiment, I tried querying the database directly in my app (bypassing the abstracted framework) and it was lightning fast. My code was hard to understand (and very hard to write, at times) but the result was a much lighter, much faster application.