A client's dashboard took 11 seconds to render. Everyone blamed the database. The real problem was an ORM doing exactly what we told it to — we just never looked at what that meant.
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- A consulting war story about a PostgreSQL-to-MongoDB migration that went sideways, what we missed in planning, and the uncomfortable lessons about knowing when not to migrate.
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