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2026-07-27 15:17
The Day I Learned to Respect Database Indexes (The Hard Way)
In 2021, I graduated from my university and joined a startup as its first employee. That time, I learned a lot of things. I picked up the full stack from scratch, Flutter, Node.js, MongoDB, all of it. I learned fast and I was building things on my own within a few months.
But there was one thing nobody told me to learn, and I never thought about it myself, database optimization.
The Lau...
