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The large table with promo codes has slowed down. How to understand and what to do?

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Answer from AI

If a large table with promo codes becomes slow, you should:

  1. Analyze queries: see which queries are executed on the table and which ones are the slowest (using EXPLAIN or profiling).
  2. Check indexes: ensure that there are appropriate indexes on fields involved in filters and joins.
  3. Optimize structure: possibly normalize data or denormalize it for speed.
  4. Archive old data: if the table is very large, consider moving outdated promo codes to an archive table.
  5. Caching: use caching for frequently repeated query results.
  6. Parallelism and sharding: if the load is very high, consider horizontal scaling.

In Go, profiling (pprof) can be used to identify bottlenecks in the application, as well as monitoring the database.