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title: "Performance"
description: "Performance considerations."
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## Role in the architecture
- Cache hot queries; avoid N+1 patterns.
- Measure p95/p99 latency and budget per hop.
- Use async pipelines for heavy work.

## Considerations
- Throughput vs. latency trade-offs.
- Failure domains and retry/backoff strategies.
- Data model ownership and boundaries.
