18 Proven Strategies to Supercharge Backend API Performance
This article shares eighteen practical techniques—including batch database operations, asynchronous processing, caching, prefetching, pooling, event callbacks, parallel remote calls, lock granularity, file‑based storage, indexing, SQL tuning, transaction management, deep pagination fixes, compression, NoSQL alternatives, thread‑pool design, and machine‑level optimizations—to dramatically reduce API latency from seconds to milliseconds.
