7 Tips To Optimize Your Backend API (Wit...

Hussein Nasser

About this episode

In this podcast I discuss 7 Tips To Optimize Your Backend API (Without Caching)

1) The serialization representation (XML/JSON, pbf) 0:40

2) Preheating connections

3) H1 vs H2

4)TCP meltdown (big distance)

5) Proxies

6) large payload (select * )

7) Client side processing (transfomring the work)

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