US Patent 11979301 Enhancing performance in network-based systems

A method, system, and computer program product, the method comprising: obtaining a data path representing flow of data in processing a service request within a network computing environment having system resources; analyzing the data path to identify usage of the system resources required by the service request processing; determining, based on the usage of the system resources, an optimization action expected to improve the usage of the system resources; and implementing the optimization action in accordance with the data path, thereby modifying operation of the cloud computing environment in handling future service requests.