In this article we will look in to finetuning aspects of application design which are different from horizontal and vertical scaling.
Use case is my portal www.talash.azurewebsites.net where loading time for landing page is around 19 sec. and reduced to 500ms.
How to fine tune and optimize loading time depends on application. But there are general guide lines to achieve it as well. Like db indexing, multi threading / multi tasking , avoiding sync calls. Once we follow best coding practices above few things can be achieve. But in the above use case still I am getting 19sec as response time for the landing page. I started looking at what else required to achieve better performance. Come across "cold starts" and added latency in cloud. Try to avoid high resolution pictures in landing page and used Cloudanary to get some help from CDN aspect and then Cache design for Graphql calls. and other techniques working as expected. Let us get in to more details of each technique and use case .
