I want our APIs to be fast and efficient by design, because performance is a feature that consumers feel on every single call. That means a deliberate caching strategy so we are not recomputing or refetching what has not changed, and performance budgets so latency and payload size are targets we hold ourselves to rather than numbers we discover after users complain. Slow APIs quietly erode adoption and quietly inflate infrastructure cost, and both problems compound as usage scales. For the business this is about handling growth without the bill and the complaints growing faster than the traffic, and for the developers and agents consuming us it is the responsiveness that makes building on our APIs feel good instead of frustrating. Fast and efficient is not a nice-to-have to me; it is part of the contract.
APIs Are Fast and Efficient
Policies
Caching Strategy Defined
Every API should define a caching strategy and express it through explicit Cache-Control headers on responses that can safely be reused. I require that providers decide, per operation, what is cach...
Performance Budgets Defined
Require that every API define performance budgets, setting explicit targets for latency, throughput, and error rates that it commits to holding. I expect these budgets to be measured continuously a...
Experiences
Performance
Performance is the experience of how fast and consistently an API responds under real-world conditions. Latency, throughput, and predictability directly shape how consumers perceive an API and whet...
Scalability
Scalability is the experience of an API continuing to work well as demand grows from dozens of consumers to millions of requests. It touches infrastructure, rate limiting, caching, and design decis...
