> Rule 5. Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming.

I'm a big fan of Data Oriented Design. Once you conceptualize how data is stored and transformed in your program, it just has to be reflected in data structures that make it possible.

Modern design approaches tend to focus on choosing a right abstraction like columnar/row layout, caching etc. They mostly fail to optimally work with the data. Optimal in this case meaning getting most of all underlying hardware capabilities, for example reading large and preferably continuous blocks of data from magnetic storage, parallel data processing, keeping intermediate results in CPU caches, utilizing all physical SSD queues.