There is a project where every minute crowns makes a request in the database:
SELECT * FROM `table` WHERE id_param = '153' It takes 10 lines, for example, compares the time, if it is in the current time interval +/- 30 seconds, then we do some work.
This all heavily loads the server, although the request is not complicated. What can prompt, what the server would not load? how best to implement it?
If someone came across, tell me)