urgh the nebulous decision between how fast you want a processing script to run vs how many computer resources you want it to use

One by one and no threading bullshit (at least on server side). Go for single call speed instead of magic. In the end everything is sync. Async is a hoax.

@retoor That’s a common misconception about async: Async doesn‘t necessarily mean threads or parallel execution.
It means concurrent execution. And it can be useful also for the backend when you have tasks that you need to wait for (such as I/O or requests to other backends)

does anyone actually semi-regularly bump into non-obvious space vs time decisions? Not me nor anyone on my team actually remembers such a choice. It's always space or time vs dev effort