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Discussion on: Most Apps Are Slower Than They Need to Be — Here’s Why (Live Demo🛸)

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Sylwia Laskowska

Exactly this! 🙌

And then, of course, we love to blame the backend, the network, anything really… 😅

But sometimes a simple shift in the execution layer can make a massive difference in performance. It’s not always about doing less work, it’s about doing it in the right place.

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BridgeXAPI

yeah exactly, that’s the pattern I keep seeing

things start to slow down or behave weirdly and the first instinct is to blame infra, but a lot of the time it’s just that the execution model hasn’t evolved with the workload

what worked at small scale just keeps getting stretched instead of rethought

that shift you mentioned is underrated, it’s not about optimizing harder, it’s about realizing you’re solving the problem in the wrong place