# Performance & Scale

**URL:** <https://forum.bubble.io/t/performance-scale/204745>\
**Category:** Database\
**Created:** [May 1, 2022, 9:05pm UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/performance-scale/204745 "2022-05-01T21:05:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![h11838239](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/94ad74/32.png) [@h11838239](https://forum.bubble.io/u/h11838239)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2022, 9:05pm UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/performance-scale/204745/1 "2022-05-01T21:05:29Z")

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Hi bubblers!

Any tips for performance and scaling, so that my app remains scalable?

My assumption is that bubble works best if I use extra defined things for key variables (especially composite primary keys and foreign keys), especially those that I use in various databases. Thus, any workflow should be faster.

Till now I found this source:  
[https://manual.bubble.io/help-guides/optimizing-an-application/performance-and-scaling](https://manual.bubble.io/help-guides/optimizing-an-application/performance-and-scaling)

Is my assumption correct or do you have other feedback? Thanks!

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**Author:** ![josh24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ed8c4c/32.png) [@josh24](https://forum.bubble.io/u/josh24)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2022, 11:44pm UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/performance-scale/204745/2 "2022-05-01T23:44:56Z")

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There’s so many aspects to this, so without knowing how you’ve built your app and what it does, it’s hard to give anything other than generic pointers.

What I can say though is that this book has proved super valuable to me early on in my Bubble career as it made me think carefully about the way I built apps, particularly around how I handle data. That’s really where so many people get it wrong and their load times skyrocket. It’s a paid resource but very much worth the money and too cheap IMO. Petter has also released a similar book on security

> [@The Ultimate Guide to Bubble Performance - 156 pages of optimizing tips](http://forum.bubble.io/t/the-ultimate-guide-to-bubble-performance-156-pages-of-optimizing-tips/125918):
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> Hey everyone, I’m very happy to announce that I’m releasing my book [The Ultimate Guide to Bubble Performance](https://gumroad.com/l/the-ultimate-guide-to-bubble-performance) today. [[image]](https://gumroad.com/l/the-ultimate-guide-to-bubble-performance) It’s a 156 page PDF available on Gumroad that dives deeply into the hard-earned lessons I’ve learned over five years of full-time Bubbling, focusing on: how to determine whether Bubble is the right tool for your project: the pros, cons and limitations from a performance perspective how to set up your app to load pages, process workflows and edit database records at ma…

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