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title: Client-Side Serving Optimization
description: Strategies for client applications to improve interaction with serving endpoints, including connection pooling, error handling with retry logic and exponential backoff, and payload size minimization.
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  - model-serving
  - client-optimization
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# Client-Side Serving Optimization

**Client-Side Serving Optimization** refers to techniques that improve how client applications interact with model serving endpoints, focusing on reducing latency, increasing throughput, and building resilient request pipelines. These optimizations complement Infrastructure Optimizations and Model Optimizations to achieve end-to-end performance improvements for production workloads. ^[optimize-model-serving-endpoints-for-production-databricks-on-aws.md]

## Overview

Client-side optimizations are critical for applications that require high query volumes, low latency, or reliable performance under variable traffic conditions. They address the interaction layer between the client and the [Model Serving Endpoint](/concepts/model-serving-endpoint.md), reducing overhead from connection management, payload transfer, and error recovery. ^[optimize-model-serving-endpoints-for-production-databricks-on-aws.md]

## Connection Pooling

Connection pooling reuses existing connections instead of creating new connections for each request, significantly reducing overhead. The Databricks SDK automatically implements connection pooling best practices. If using custom clients, developers must implement connection pooling themselves. ^[optimize-model-serving-endpoints-for-production-databricks-on-aws.md]

## Error Handling and Retry Strategies

Robust error handling enables applications to gracefully handle temporary failures, especially during Autoscaling events or network disruptions. Recommended practices include implementing retry logic with exponential backoff in client applications. ^[optimize-model-serving-endpoints-for-production-databricks-on-aws.md]

## Payload Size Optimization

Minimizing request and response payload sizes reduces network transfer time and improves throughput. Clients should compress or trim unnecessary data fields, use efficient serialization formats, and send only the data required for inference. ^[optimize-model-serving-endpoints-for-production-databricks-on-aws.md]

## Batching

If the application can send multiple requests in a single call, enabling batching at the client side can significantly reduce the overhead per prediction. This technique is especially effective for applications that process large volumes of input data. ^[optimize-model-serving-endpoints-for-production-databricks-on-aws.md]

## When to Apply Client-Side Optimizations

Consider implementing client-side optimizations when:

- The application sends more than 50,000 queries per second (QPS) to a single endpoint
- The application requires sub-100ms response times
- Endpoints experience queuing or return HTTP 429 errors during traffic spikes
- You want to reduce serving costs while maintaining performance targets
- You are preparing to move from development to production workloads

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## Related Techniques

- Route Optimization — Infrastructure-level optimization that improves network path for inference requests
- [Provisioned Concurrency](/concepts/provisioned-concurrency.md) — Controls how many simultaneous requests an endpoint can process
- [Load Testing](/concepts/locust-load-testing-framework.md) — Measures endpoint performance under realistic traffic conditions
- Monitor model quality and endpoint health — Tools for tracking performance metrics
- [Performance Monitoring](/concepts/performance-monitoring-with-mlflow-traces.md) — Continuous observation of endpoint behavior

## Sources

- optimize-model-serving-endpoints-for-production-databricks-on-aws.md

# Citations

1. [optimize-model-serving-endpoints-for-production-databricks-on-aws.md](/references/optimize-model-serving-endpoints-for-production-databricks-on-aws-6a182106.md)
