> there is no way any competently written back end system takes 5-7 seconds for any reason whatsoever.
I'd argue that even a well written system that allows arbitrary date ranges and filtering of data can easily run past that limit. You just can always know ahead of time what some client might request and some strategies for making normal queries fast can make some queries slower. Its tradeoffs all the way down.
I'd argue that even a well written system that allows arbitrary date ranges and filtering of data can easily run past that limit. You just can always know ahead of time what some client might request and some strategies for making normal queries fast can make some queries slower. Its tradeoffs all the way down.