A Deep Dive in How Slow SELECT * is
The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser
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How to Deceralize a Database Client
Lazy parsing is also a thing in the client side, where let's actually wait for the client to consume some of this stuff. Fitch has the same thing, by the way, right? The Fitch API will give you just the byte, the raw body,. You cannot actually do anything with the body until you call body.json function. So if you can do it lazily, that's even better. But how about that? If you can avoid sending data that you never use, as even better for the back end, isn't it? Right?
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