Your monitoring dashboard is green.

Your users are furious. Your business is bleeding.

Who do you believe?

The Zombie API: A Performance Forensics Guide to Finding and Killing the Bottlenecks That Are Killing Your Business

Your API passes all health checks. It's "up." But your users are leaving, your frontend team is complaining, and your server bills are skyrocketing.

You have a Zombie API: technically alive, but functionally dead.

Performance issues are the silent killers of modern applications, and finding them requires more than just monitoring dashboards; it requires a detective's mindset.

In this session, we will conduct a live performance autopsy of a real-world Zombie API.

We will walk through a systematic, repeatable framework for hunting down the hidden culprits—from insidious N+1 database queries and memory leaks to inefficient serialization and third-party service timeouts.

Using a combination of open-source tools and strategic code instrumentation, we will pinpoint the exact lines of code responsible for 90% of the latency.

You will leave not with a list of tools, but with a forensic methodology for diagnosing, documenting, and executing performance improvements that transform a sluggish API into a high-throughput, cost-effective asset.