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How UI/UX can break the backend

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

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Application Development - The User Experience

The user interface looks like this, but the experience is atrocious. When was the last time you ever clicked on a page to find anything? Do we have to do that? Absolutely not. There are certain cases where you should. The count is expensive. The database has to go one by one to count every single row. And even if you have an index, right, the index has the entries and the index have to be traversed to count,. So users, what they do, that's why the number of likes, right, in a picture or the number of files are, all of these are estimated, right? They're never actually accurate, right?

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