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Improving APIPerformance Notes

The document discusses techniques to improve API performance, focusing on caching, pagination, and response compression. It outlines the benefits and best practices for each technique, emphasizing their impact on user experience and operational efficiency. The document also includes a hands-on section for implementing these techniques in a sample API.

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Improving APIPerformance Notes

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Improving API Performance: Detailed Notes

Introduction
API performance directly impacts the user experience, operational costs, and scalability of
applications. This session focuses on practical techniques to enhance API performance,
including caching, pagination, and response compression.

1. Caching
Caching is a technique used to temporarily store frequently accessed data to improve
response times and reduce load on the backend systems.

Types of Caching:
- In-memory Cache: Stores data in RAM for quick access. Example: .NET Core MemoryCache.
- Distributed Cache: Shared cache system for multiple servers. Example: Redis, Memcached.

Benefits of Caching:
- Reduces database queries and improves response times.
- Enhances scalability by lowering server load.

Best Practices for Caching:


- Cache data that changes infrequently.
- Use cache expiration policies to keep data fresh.
- Implement cache invalidation strategies.

2. Pagination
Pagination divides large datasets into smaller chunks, making data retrieval efficient and
manageable.

Strategies for Pagination:


- Limit and Offset: Retrieve a subset of data using page size and start index.
- Cursor-based Pagination: Uses a pointer or token to fetch the next set of data.

Benefits of Pagination:
- Optimizes API response time for large datasets.
- Reduces bandwidth usage and memory consumption.

Implementation Tips:
- Always return metadata (e.g., total records, current page).
- Validate input to avoid errors (e.g., negative page numbers).

3. Response Compression
Response compression reduces the size of API responses, speeding up data transfer and
improving user experience.
Common Compression Methods:
- Gzip: Widely used and supported by most clients.
- Brotli: Offers better compression ratios than Gzip but may have limited client support.

Benefits of Compression:
- Reduces data transfer time over the network.
- Enhances performance for users on slow or limited bandwidth connections.

Implementation in .NET Core:


Enable response compression in the middleware using the
`Microsoft.AspNetCore.ResponseCompression` package.

Hands-On: Enhancing the "Product Catalog" API


In this hands-on section, we will add caching, pagination, and response compression to a
sample API.

Steps:
1. Implement in-memory caching for product data.
2. Add pagination to handle large product datasets.
3. Enable Gzip compression for API responses.
4. Test the API using Postman and analyze performance improvements.

Tools Used
- Visual Studio 2019 or later.
- Postman for API testing.
- Browser tools for analyzing network performance.

Key Takeaways
- Caching improves speed and reduces server load.
- Pagination optimizes API responses for large datasets.
- Response compression enhances performance on slow networks.
- Combining these techniques results in scalable and efficient APIs.

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