On: Software Design Review (2009)

[revskill]

Business people don't know N+1 query is the issue.

Normally they only care if a feature is working or not.

About performance, it's upon the developer to fix it or not.

[cratermoon → revskill]

Yes, those are broadly true generalizations, but they don't answer my question.

> it's upon the developer to fix it or not.

But why wouldn't the developer fix it? What incentives do they have for leaving a known problem unaddressed?