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Your ecommerce application is rapidly gaining new users, resulting in performance issues caused by a high volume of requests to your backend API. This API, which your team maintains, connects to a Cloud SQL database that is currently overwhelmed, leading to high latency and frequent timeouts. You need to find a solution to optimize API performance and enhance the user experience. What approach should you take?