The last few years I've been working on a fairly big django project written by someone learning the problem domain and python/django at the same time.
I have a lot of similar stories and I you are absolutely right to encourage people to learn the basics, at least (looking at you, indexes and perf tools).
We're talking about having our cpu hitting 80-90% and rising internal temperature to 70-80C, while executing a task thats normally performed tens or hundreds of times during the workday.
A couple of carefully planned indexes, a bit of sql shuffling, is all it takes sometimes.
The upside of working with cheap bare metal servers is that you catch these things early on (5 concurrent users and your server is toasted). Fun times.
I have a lot of similar stories and I you are absolutely right to encourage people to learn the basics, at least (looking at you, indexes and perf tools).
We're talking about having our cpu hitting 80-90% and rising internal temperature to 70-80C, while executing a task thats normally performed tens or hundreds of times during the workday.
A couple of carefully planned indexes, a bit of sql shuffling, is all it takes sometimes.
The upside of working with cheap bare metal servers is that you catch these things early on (5 concurrent users and your server is toasted). Fun times.