# Optimize performance of REST APIs
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After you've made your API available to be called, you might realize that it needs to be optimized to improve responsiveness. API Gateway provides a few strategies for optimizing your API, like response caching and payload compression. In this section, you can learn how to enable these capabilities.

**Topics**
+ [Cache settings for REST APIs in API Gateway](api-gateway-caching.md)
+ [Payload compression for REST APIs in API Gateway](api-gateway-gzip-compression-decompression.md)