Optimizing Backend API Performance

This conference talk from Conf42 Cloud Native 2025 explores effective strategies for enhancing backend API performance. In just 13 minutes, Garima Agarwal covers critical aspects of API optimization, beginning with her background and the fundamental importance of API performance in modern applications. Discover common performance bottlenecks that plague backend systems before diving into practical solutions including efficient pagination techniques, implementing asynchronous logging to reduce latency, leveraging various caching strategies, applying payload compression methods, and utilizing connection pooling for database efficiency. The presentation concludes with key takeaways that can be immediately applied to improve API response times and overall system performance in cloud-native environments.