“The GitHub page loaded over a hundred MySQL queries across at least three different MySQL clusters. … Almost every single count you see on a GitHub page is live calculated. None of those are cached. … Once it gets to 99, just don't show anything. Just say 99 plus. Don't bother counting it. Why are we counting this?”

actually less than that but yeah yeah so some some amount of time ago um was it was a hundred over a hundred Hundred MySQL queries to populate that page across at least three different MySQL clusters. And the thing with ActiveRecord is that it only caches the output automatically if the query is exactly the same. And so, if, say, you're fetching user information, like full, like blanket, like select star from users where user ID equals blank, and you have that full user, but then later on you do select star from users where user ID equals blank and something else, it's not going to reach back into the results that it cached for that first query because they are not exact same queries. Every single count, or at least when I last left, almost every single count on you see on a GitHub page is live calculated. None of those are cached. There's a lot of reasons why that is. Mostly product reasons, actually. But that's one of the first things that I was like, but why? And to go back to like my sort of silly emoji example of like the 10,000 and one emoji, no one cares. Why does anyone care? Right. And if…