You didn't notice it at first. Maybe your checkout page started loading a second slower. Maybe your team mentioned the orders dashboard felt laggy. Maybe your biggest sale of the year turned into a scramble because the backend was crawling. The store looks fine from the outside. But behind the scenes, something's weighing it down. Old orders. Thousands of them. Still sitting in your live database, even though those customers received their packages months ago. This is one of the...
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