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Your app is slow. You’ve optimized the database, fixed the N+1 queries and tuned your microservices. But what if the biggest performance tax on your service is hiding in plain sight, in a layer so fundamental that we often treat it as a solved problem?
I’m talking about SSL/TLS. For decades, we’ve rightfully treated it as a non-negotiable security feature, the lock icon in the browser, the “S” in HTTPS. We enable it, get our certificate from Let’s Encrypt and move on.
However, this “set it and forget it” mentality is becoming…
