# How to Minimise the Impact of Database Latency

DevFeed: [How to Minimise the Impact of Database Latency](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-to-minimise-the-impact-of-database-latency-5397.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://neon.com/blog/how-to-minimise-the-impact-of-database-latency>)

Author: Evan Shortiss

Published: 2024-06-07T05:45:26Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Blog -- Neon Docs](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/blog-neon-docs.md>)

Topics: [dashboards](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dashboards.md>)

Tags: [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [backend](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/backend.md>), [community](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/community.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-to.md>), [http](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/http.md>), [latency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/latency.md>), [serverless](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/serverless.md>)

## AI overview

The article explains how database latency affects API response times and introduces a regional latency dashboard for measuring latency between hosting providers and Neon regions.

## Source excerpt

Introduction I spend a lot of time interacting with developers on Neon's Discord Server--if you're not already a member, you should join us! One recurring issue that I've seen developers ask for assistance with is identifying a reason for suboptimal response times from their appli...