Explore the top performance challenges in distributed architectures and learn effective strategies to identify and address bottlenecks in microservices and container-based systems. Analyze common issues such as excessive service roundtrips, poor connection pooling, missing cache layers, and data overload between service tiers. Discover techniques for quickly pinpointing potential performance problems without relying on large-scale performance tests. Gain insights into antipatterns like N+1 call patterns, payload floods, tight coupling, and inefficient service flows. Understand the importance of monitoring, implementing monitoring as code, and incorporating automated performance testing to ensure optimal performance in distributed environments.