On the cult of performance in databasesIt takes about 4.5 hours for me to go door to door from my house in Seattle to our office in San Francisco. Let’s say you built a hypersonic plane with a top speed that was 10 times faster than the usual Boeing 737-MAX (with or without the extra windy window seat). After you factor in an Uber to the airport, waiting in security lines, boarding, taxiing on the tarmac, takeoff and landing, waiting for a gate, waiting for baggage, and my Uber to the office, yo...