--- title: Top Strategies to Reduce Latency | daily.dev description: Latency can be as damaging as downtime in modern applications. Eight key strategies help reduce latency: caching frequently accessed data, using CDNs to serve... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/top-strategies-to-reduce-latency-eao7babfw twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Top Strategies to Reduce Latency | daily.dev og:description: Latency can be as damaging as downtime in modern applications. Eight key strategies help reduce latency: caching frequently accessed data, using CDNs to serve... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/top-strategies-to-reduce-latency-eao7babfw og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/EAO7BABfW.png og:image:alt: Top Strategies to Reduce Latency og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Top Strategies to Reduce Latency **[System Design Codex](https://daily.dev/sources/systemdesigncodex)** · 5 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Latency can be as damaging as downtime in modern applications. Eight key strategies help reduce latency: caching frequently accessed data, using CDNs to serve content geographically closer to users, load balancing to distribute traffic across servers, async processing for long-running tasks, database indexing for faster queries, data compression to reduce network payload, precaching anticipated requests, and reusing TCP connections with keep-alive. Each technique addresses different aspects of system performance, from data retrieval to network optimization. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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