API Optimization Tale - Monitor, Fix and Deploy

Explore a captivating conference talk that delves into the challenges and lessons learned during a critical API optimization project. Follow the speaker's journey as they navigate through a service extraction project, transitioning from REST to GraphQL, and optimizing API usage. Discover the reasons behind a risky late-Friday deployment, the methods used to measure migration effects, and the unexpected consequences of testing in production. Gain insights into the importance of small steps, effective monitoring, and adapting traditional techniques to new environments. Learn from the speaker's experiences of hope, despair, and dealing with broken production as they share valuable lessons on API optimization, deployment strategies, and handling unforeseen challenges in software development.

Introduction
Platform overview
Optimization
Flood of requests
Database queries
What happened instead
What happened next