Introduction

Performance is a very important concept in computer science that has to do with efficiency of a system. The more performant a system is, it means it is able to effectively handle much load with less effort. In the case of software, we need to make sure that our infrastructure, application code and database can all work together to ensure that lots of requests are properly handled.

In this article, we will look at addressing performance bottlenecks at the level of the application and at the level of the database.

Application Level performance

At the level of the application,