Top 8 Ways to 10x Your APIs Performance

Next, we’ll dive into a couple of tips on how you can start optimizing your APIs.

1. Pagination

• This is a common optimization when the size of the result is large. The results are streaming back to the client to improve the service responsiveness.

2. Asynchronous Logging

• Synchronous logging deals with the disk for every call and can slow down the system. Asynchronous logging sends logs to a lock-free buffer first and immediately returns.
• The logs will be flushed to the disk periodically. This significantly reduces the I/O overhead.

3. Caching

• We can cache frequently accessed data into a cache. The client can query the cache first instead of visiting the database directly. If there is a cache miss, the client can query from the database.
• Caches like Redis store data in memory, so the data access is much faster than the database.