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Every New Smithmagus Made Search Slower: Killing the N+1 Behind Forgemage.net
Forgemage.net's smithmagus directory ran roughly seven queries per card — reviews, response time, online status, three lazy relations — plus facet counts recomputed on every filter tweak. Here's how I got a page of 24 cards from ~168 queries down to a handful, with a request-scoped batch cache and a paginate-then-hydrate pass, without touching the single-profile pages.
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