7 Ways to Make Your API Faster

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Your API is slow.

You know it is slow because somebody in the product channel posted a screenshot of a spinner with the caption "is this normal".

So you open the codebase, and within ninety seconds you have three theories, two refactors planned, and a strong urge to swap the JSON library.

Stop.

7 Ways to Make Your API Faster

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