Performance work should start with measurement. In most systems a small number of queries, one missing index or one synchronous call to a slow provider accounts for the majority of the latency.
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16- Caching
- Database optimization
- Load balancing
- Horizontal scaling
- Asynchronous jobs
- Queues
- Containerization
- Cloud deployment
- Health checks
- Monitoring
- Logging
- Alerting
- Uptime monitoring
- Performance testing
- Load testing
- Failover design
What monitoring should tell you
An API that is watched properly reports on:
- Uptime and availability
- Error rates by endpoint
- Latency percentiles, not averages
- Usage per customer and per key
- Model health where models are involved
- Infrastructure load and headroom
- External provider failures
- Cost per request
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