Currently, I'm on sabbatical (micro retirement) and pondering full retirement. The IT industry has undergone significant upheavals in recent years ... the rapid advancement of AI technologies has created new challenges for experienced developers seeking meaningful work opportunities.
In 2026:
The cheaper cousin. Everything above retained a duration. Sometimes the answer is just a number, and the Counter collector counts operations as they begin and keeps nothing else, which makes it cheap enough to leave running under a whole test suite. Bind a database layer's execute once, register a counter, and give every test a query budget in a fixture, and the classic N+1 regression fails with a number attached rather than slipping through as a test that merely got slower.