--- title: How we decreased one of our APIs response time by 87%... description: Aksel Arzuman wrote a blog post on how we rewrote an existing API in Go. The new API decreased response time by 87% and used fewer resources. Aksel shared his... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-we-decreased-one-of-our-apis-response-time-by-87-and-used-less-resources-n-g5rqq2z twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How we decreased one of our APIs response time by 87% and used less resources | daily.dev og:description: Aksel Arzuman wrote a blog post on how we rewrote an existing API in Go. The new API decreased response time by 87% and used fewer resources. 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