The importance of performance optimizations and low latency is critical for developers building complex sites and web applications, particularly those with ecommerce stores, social media platforms, and other high-traffic apps. A new integration with PolyScale by Netlify addresses performance issues caused by slow database access by storing frequently accessed data in the cache, reducing load on the underlying database and improving overall application performance. The integration enables developers to easily create or select a PolyScale cache from the Netlify UI, execute queries against the cache from serverless functions, and use generated code snippets to get started quickly.