A performance change should improve the measured workload without sacrificing correctness or wasting capacity. Which measurements and bottlenecks should be considered first?

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Measure request volume, storage latency and authentication churn. Reuse valid leases appropriately and avoid requesting a new token for every application operation. Caching changes revocation and outage behavior, so tune it according to the security and freshness requirements.

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