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+title: Week 32 in Review
+tags:
+  - "Week In Review"
+growthStage: evergreen
+---
+
+> _"Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control."_
+> — Epictetus
+
+This week has been spent split between a Node.js project and Laravel. The Node project uses [Fasifty](https://www.fastify.io/) with [Prisma](https://www.prisma.io/) and [Redis](https://redis.io/) to build a service for our routing engine to be hosted on aws lambda.
+
+The project itself is going well, coming from PHP there was a huge shift in mindset needed at the beginning as building for lambda comes with its own constraints. When making requests for example I kept hitting a delay of two seconds before each request would process.
+
+Using the [JavaScript Performance measurement APIs](https://nodejs.org/api/perf_hooks.html#performance-measurement-apis) I was able to nail this down to the first database query. It's a simple query and ran in about 500ms within [TablePlus](https://tableplus.com/), even quicker at 23ms once I added an index on the two columns being filtered, so why the ~2000ms delay?
+
+It turns out the delay is the Prisma.js cold boot time. This is compounded by the fact that I am booting Prisma for each request meaning it ends up garbage collected rather than remaining in global scope for all requests to utilise. The solution I have yet to implement is writing a Fastify Plugin to instantiate and expose the Prisma Client instance. The cold boot time will still be there but importantly; it won't be felt by every single request.
+
+## Joke of the week
+_"Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was the best in his field."_
+
+## Notable Articles Read
+- [Jakob Greenfeld: No more "Insight Porn"](https://jakobgreenfeld.com/insight-porn)
+- [Joe Morrison: Google Maps' Moat is Evaporating](https://joemorrison.substack.com/p/google-maps-moat-is-evaporating)
+- [Ben Hoyt: Rob Pike’s simple C regex matcher in Go](https://benhoyt.com/writings/rob-pike-regex/)
+- [Keunwoo Lee: On rebooting: the unreasonable effectiveness of turning computers off and on again](https://keunwoo.com/notes/rebooting/)
+- [Adrian Holovaty: Let websites framebust out of native apps](https://www.holovaty.com/writing/framebust-native-apps/)
+
+## Notable Videos Watched
+- [4 EASY Starter Farms For 1.19 Survival Minecraft!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0LqWbILLDY) by [Gorillo](https://www.youtube.com/c/Gorillo)
+- [Minecraft | How to Build a Barn for Animals](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0Xh6R98BIk) by [Zaypixel](https://www.youtube.com/c/Zaypixel)
+
+## Cool things from around the internet
+- [Radio Art Zone](https://radioart.zone/)
+- [Hot: a macOS menu bar app for displaying temperatures](https://github.com/macmade/Hot)
+- [luxe: A lovingly crafted cross platform game engine](https://luxeengine.com/)
+- [PHP Desktop](https://github.com/cztomczak/phpdesktop)
+
+## Game Wishlist
+- [Mossfield Origins](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1836400/Mossfield_Origins/)
+- [Going Medieval](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1029780/Going_Medieval/)