Best Way to Integrate External APIs with Bubble Without Slowing Down the App?

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Hi everyone,
I’m working on a project that relies on multiple third-party APIs. Right now, I’m using Bubble’s API Connector, but the response time is causing delays in the user interface.

Is there a better or more optimized way to handle external API calls in Bubble? Should I be caching data or using backend workflows differently?

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Are you using backend workflows for the data retrieval from the API? How is the API setup in API connector, as an action or as data?

Typically, in my experience the time required to fetch data from bubble database or from an api provider is not much different, and the more data returned the longer the response time for both. How much data is getting returned by each API (keep in mind they likely run simultaneously so it is not something that API 1 needs to be returned before API 2 is)

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