Azure provides a variety of tools to help optimize the performance of your web applications. Here are some key tools and strategies you can use:
Azure Advisor
Azure Advisor is a personalized cloud consultant that helps you follow best practices to optimize your Azure deployments. It provides performance recommendations that can help improve the speed and responsiveness of your business-critical applications.
Reduce DNS Time-to-Live
You can use time-to-live (TTL) settings on your Azure Traffic Manager profile to specify how quickly to switch endpoints if a given endpoint stops responding to queries. Reducing the TTL values will route clients to functioning endpoints faster.
SQL Database Advisor
Azure Advisor integrates with SQL Database Advisor to bring you recommendations for improving the performance of your databases. SQL Database Advisor assesses the performance of your databases by analyzing your usage history and then offers recommendations that are best suited for running the database’s typical workload.
Upgrade Your Storage Client Library
The latest version of the Storage client library SDK contains fixes to problems reported by customers and proactively identified through our QA process. The latest version also carries reliability and performance optimization together with new features that can improve your overall experience with using Azure Storage.
Azure App Service
Azure Advisor integrates recommendations for improving your App Service experience and discovering relevant platform capabilities. Examples of App Service recommendations are detection of instances where memory or CPU resources are exhausted by app runtimes, with mitigation options.
Well-Architected Framework
The Well-Architected Framework is a set of guiding tenants derived from the experience gathered from real-world implementations. This framework is defined across five main categories: Reliability, Security, Cost optimization, Operational excellence, and Performance efficiency.
By using these tools and following the recommendations provided, you can significantly improve the performance of your web applications on Azure. Remember, even if you’ve planned and architected your workloads properly, there may still be room for optimization of your existing services.