3 years ago

Category: Database, Redis

We can’t optimize for everything in software engineering, so we need to start with something, and that something should be simplicity. For example, to over-optimize for speed in JavaScript, we might write our for-loops backwards to the detriment of readability. On other occasions, we may over-optimize architectural abstraction to the detriment of speed. I assert that we should optimize for simplicity first, and only make complex memory, speed, and abstraction improvements as they become necessary.

It’s trivial to find a bottleneck in code that is easy to understand.