Database Query Optimization for High-Traffic Systems: A Practical Guide
If your database is a restaurant during dinner rush, then unoptimized queries are like ordering a custom meal while a line of hungry customers wraps around the block. Let’s fix that. High-traffic web applications face a peculiar problem: they’re victims of their own success. More users means more queries, and more queries mean your database either gets faster or becomes the bottleneck that ruins everyone’s evening. The good news? Database optimization is a science, not black magic, and we’re about to demystify it....
