How do you ensure the performance and scalability of a Spring Boot application? Discuss techniques you've implemented in the past.

## What to Cover Discuss specific strategies you've employed like caching, load balancing, and optimizing database queries. Include metrics to demonstrate the impact of your techniques. ## Strong Answer Framework Teamwork in performance improvements, examples of past projects where scalability was a concern. ## Watch Out For Avoid generic answers; focus on specifics and real impacts.