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dexwiz on July 8, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: How we tamed Node.js event loop lag: a deepdive

Says event loop in the title, but the real culprit is a non paginated endpoint with a nested looped. Pagination or guard rails are basic things for customer facing features. Any time you design a service for X items, some will try it with 10x-1000X items. Be ready for that.

corytheboyd on July 8, 2024 [–]

And every single time a product person will challenge the need for pagination, or any other limits that make your systems actually scalable. Sigh.

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