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Discussion on: What makes your web app faster? (part 1, databases)

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Artur Neumann

In my experience, the biggest impact on your (relational) database performance you can make by putting in correct indexes essentialsql.com/what-is-a-databas...
That is obviously only true for read operations, but most web apps do more read operations that write operations

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Jarosław Księżuk • Edited

It's not everything, in first place you need to prepare correct data models, indexes are very important but you need to think much deeper.