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Summary: Many round trips of small api requests can add up a lot of latency. An often used tactic is to bundle requests. Even better is to locally cache data when possible.

Is this news for anybody here?

Nothing new here, but perhaps useful to others as a good summary of the trade-offs in batching, caching, and where HTTP/2 fits in.

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