Comment by hnthrow90348765

I've not seen a compelling reason start the performance fight in ordinary companies doing CRUD apps. Even if I was good at performance, I wouldn't give that away for free, and I'd prefer to go to companies where it's a requirement (HFT or games), which only furthers the issue about slowness being ubiquitous.

For example, I dropped a 5s paginated query doing a weird cross join to ~30ms and all I got for that is a pat on the back. It wasn't skill, but just recognizing we didn't need the cross join part.

We'd need to start firing people who write slow queries, forcing them to become good, or pay more for developers who know how to measure and deliver performance, which I also don't think is happening.