Jeff Moden (7/14/2014)
It's just such small-fry that used to choke the server I took over because there were many such small fish that got executed hundreds of millions of times per day.
Most .NET apps I see are spamming the database with thousands of calls a second loading and reloading data; whereby the programmers don't even know why it's happening and can't stop it.
So yeah, amen. Tiny improvements (admittedly on known hot spots) can have big improvements 😛