Apollo Performance Tuning

Overview

Optimize Apollo.io API performance through response caching, connection pooling, bulk operations, parallel fetching, and result slimming. Key insight: search is free but slow (~500ms), enrichment costs credits — cache aggressively and batch enrichment calls.

Prerequisites

• Valid Apollo API key
• Node.js 18+

Instructions

Step 1: Connection Pooling

Reuse TCP connections to avoid TLS handshake overhead on every request.

// src/apollo/optimized-client.ts
import axios from 'axios';
import https from 'https';

const httpsAgent = new https.Agent({