Optimizing a High‑Concurrency Backend Interface: Reducing Response Time from 30 seconds to 0.8 seconds
This article presents a real‑world case study of a high‑traffic backend API that originally took 30 seconds to process over two million records, detailing problem diagnosis, SQL and Java code analysis, and a series of optimizations—including SQL rewrites, database‑side aggregation, and Caffeine caching—that ultimately cut the response time to under one second.