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Your Integration Tests Are Too Slow Because You Are Testing Too Much at Once

Published: January 14, 2026
Author: Eric Hanson
Backend Developer

Integration tests that take 15 minutes to run are usually testing multiple unrelated behaviors in each test case, or starting too much infrastructure for each individual test. The fix is narrowing scope, not adding more hardware.

Published: January 14, 2026
Author: Eric Hanson
Backend Developer

Over-fetching — selecting too many columns, too many rows, or too many related records — is one of the quietest performance killers in backend systems, and fixing it rarely requires rearchitecting anything.

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