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What page are you hitting that's slow? Everything I have tried so far is instant.

Edit: Maybe the author needed to scale up the site infrastructure for Hacker News?

Site loads instantly for me with JS disabled but after that I've never seen anything like it. It's all narrow columns overlapping.

Kent is a great Developer specialized in Frontend, but his whole Full-Stack experiment is rather overengineered.

Whats the problem with handling analytics data with a relational db?

Go read about OLAP vs OLTP, those keywords will lead to the answer you are seeking.

It's more about transactional vs analytical systems. You want those decoupled. You can absolutely still use a relational DB for your analytics database, it can even be column oriented and vectorized if you want.