Hi! I'm Tobias Petry, a full stack developer who used to suck at writing fast database queries. Whenever I had a slow query, I needed to ask more advanced developers for help and hope they had time for me. Like everyone, I always wished I could solve those problems on my own. But even after reading some tutorials I didn't get any closer to my goal. The number of queries I couldn't optimize by far exceeded the ones I could make faster. So I learned everything about databases over the next 10+ years from countless books, conferences, trainings, articles and much practice. Finally, I could fix any slow query entirely without help. But during my consulting work I found that most developers still face the same problem.