Your ORM is quietly sending 247 database queries to render one page. It smiled warmly while loading your entire database into memory one row at a time, like a golden retriever fetching every stick in the park.
Posts tagged “performance” (5)
Template engines exist so designers can edit HTML. Designers haven't touched your Jinja files in two years. You're running an interpreter inside your server for an audience that left.
Your /health endpoint runs through 12 middleware functions to return {ok: true}. Your architecture is doing a pull-up, a squat, and a mile run before it's allowed to say I'm fine.
How Loom pre-renders every page into 6 HTTP wire variants, serves them with zero copies and zero allocations, and keeps responses under a millisecond.
Every allocation is a conversation with the operating system. string_view lets you avoid the conversation entirely.