performance-optimization-skill

What I do

Find and fix bottlenecks: profile first (cProfile/line_profiler, Node clinic/0x, Next bundle analyzer), then fix by layer — caching, bundle size, lazy loading, N+1 queries, memory leaks.

When to use me

Slow endpoints/views, high DB query counts, bloated bundles, memory growth. Rule: measure before optimizing; fix the layer the profile names, not the one intuition blames.

House rules

Caching layer matrix: in-memory LRU (computed values, process lifetime) → Redis/Memcached (sessions, API responses, minutes-hours) → HTTP Cache-Control/ETag (static, GET) → CDN (public assets) → DB query cache/materialized views (aggregations). Choose the outermost layer that satisfies freshness.

N+1 detection per ORM: SQLAlchemy selectinload(User.posts) eager options; Prisma include: { posts: true }; Django select_related (FK) + prefetch_related (reverse/M2M). Loop-over-list firing per-item queries = N+1, even when wrapped in Promise.all.

N+1 enrichment variant (house pattern): enrichment pipelines that fetch user/project/metrics per report batch-fetch instead — collect distinct IDs, one getByIds(IN) query per relation, group into Maps, assemble. Turns 4N queries into 4.

Related: monorepo-management-skill (remote build cache) · blast-radius-skill (prove the fix).

Removed 2026-09: profiler CLI walkthroughs, per-ORM code listings, Redis/memoization/HTTP-cache/Next caching tutorials, lazy-loading and memory-leak pattern dumps, bundle-analysis transcripts — vendor/tool knowledge the model carries; kept the layer matrix, detection signatures, and the batch-enrichment house pattern.

Iteration Protocol (opt-in)

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