Database & Backend Performance • 72-Hour Sprint

Cut Your API Latencies and Database Load by 60%+ in 72 Hours.

For engineering leads and product managers wrestling with spinning dashboards, slow checkout endpoints, and spiking AWS/RDS bills. We benchmark your slowest database queries, eliminate locking, and deliver benchmarked latency drops in 3 days flat.

Slash Latency in 72 Hours (£2,450) See Technical Scope & Guarantee

Sprint Timeline

72 Business Hours

Fixed Investment

£2,450 (Fixed Scope)

Output Package

PR + Benchmark Profile + Migrations

Performance Toll

Three problems slow queries inflict on growing apps

Throwing larger server instances at unindexed sequential scans only masks the symptoms while doubling infrastructure bills.

1. User Churn from 2–4 Second Dashboard Loads

As database tables grow past millions of records, complex aggregations lock up. Customers abandon checkout flows or complain about spinning screens, triggering support tickets and SLA penalties.

2. Runaway Cloud & RDS Instance Invoices

Your team keeps bumping AWS RDS or GCP Cloud SQL instance tiers from db.t3.medium to db.r6g.2xlarge. You are paying hundreds in cloud compute every month just to process unindexed table scans that should take 8ms.

3. Deadlocks & Connection Exhaustion Under Traffic

During peak marketing campaigns or batch syncs, unindexed foreign key lookups cause table lock cascades. Connection pools saturate, leading to 504 Gateway Timeout outages.

Scope Enclosure

What's delivered in the 72-hour latency sprint

Direct code refactors, non-blocking index migrations, and atomic caching implemented directly in your codebase.

✔ Optimization Deliverables Checklist

■ EXPLAIN ANALYZE Deep Profiling: Full execution plan teardown of your 5 slowest queries to pinpoint sequential scans, memory spills, and inefficient hash joins.
■ Targeted Index Engineering: Composite, partial, or expression-based indexes written with non-blocking CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY scripts for zero production locking.
■ N+1 Query Elimination: Refactoring ORM call cascades (Prisma, TypeORM, Hibernate, Rails, or Apex) into eager joins or batch lookups.
■ Redis Cache-Aside Layering: Implementation of cache-aside patterns with strict TTLs and atomic cache invalidation for heavy read endpoints.
■ Connection Pool Tuning: Optimal sizing and configuration of connection pooling (PgBouncer, HikariCP) to stop thread contention under load.
■ Pull Request & Benchmark Report: Tested Git branch plus a visual before-and-after p50/p95/p99 latency graph verifying the speed increase.

✖ What is NOT Included (Strict Boundaries)

✕ Rewriting your entire microservices architecture or complete application stack.
✕ Database vendor migration (e.g. migrating MySQL to PostgreSQL).
✕ Frontend bundle size optimization or CSS minification (backend and data layer focus).
✕ Direct manual merges to production without your technical lead's sign-off.

72-Hour Execution

From slow queries to benchmarked PR in 3 days

PHASE 01 — HOURS 0 TO 12

Staging Access & Profiling

Under mutual NDA, we connect to your staging replica or review slow query logs (pg_stat_statements). We isolate the top 5 bottleneck queries and establish baseline benchmarks.

PHASE 02 — HOURS 12 TO 48

Refactoring & Index Migrations

We engineer targeted indexes, rewrite unindexed joins, eliminate N+1 calls, and configure Redis caching layers. All changes are tested on realistic staging datasets.

PHASE 03 — HOURS 48 TO 72

PR Handover & Verification

We submit the pull request with migration scripts and deliver the comparative benchmark report. We accompany your tech lead during staging verification.

Sprint Pricing

Backed by a 40%+ latency reduction guarantee.

Fixed 72-Hour Sprint

Performance & Query Optimization

£2,450

Fixed sprint fee • or $3,200 USD

Scope Included:

✓ Up to 5 identified target queries/endpoints
✓ Non-blocking concurrent index migrations
✓ N+1 query elimination & ORM tuning
✓ Redis cache-aside implementation

The Oaklogix Guarantee:

✓ 40%+ Latency Reduction Guarantee: If target queries don't drop by at least 40% on staging, we refund 100% of your fee.
✓ Zero production downtime migration scripts
✓ 100% Code Ownership in your repository

Slash Latency in 72 Hours (£2,450)

Technical FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Can you optimize production without causing downtime during index creation?

Yes. We build migration scripts using non-blocking commands such as CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY in PostgreSQL to ensure production tables remain fully accessible for reads and writes throughout deployment.

What databases and backends do you specialize in?

PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, and Salesforce SOQL/BigObjects. On the application layer, we specialize in Java (Spring Boot), Node.js/TypeScript, Python, and Apex.

Do you need access to our production customer data?

No. We prefer working on an anonymized staging replica or scrubbed development database with representative row counts to simulate realistic query plans.

What if our bottlenecks are caused by third-party external APIs rather than the database?

We identify this immediately during Phase 1 profiling. If the issue stems from blocking third-party network I/O, we refactor the call into an asynchronous background job with webhook reconciliation.

72-Hour Sprint

Stop Paying for Bigger Cloud Instances to Mask Slow Queries.

Slash your p95 latencies and eliminate database bottlenecks in 72 hours. Guaranteed 40%+ latency drop or 100% money back.

✔ Executed directly by Waleed Rafique (10+ years backend & DB tuning).

✔ Zero production downtime guarantee.

✔ 40%+ latency slash guarantee.