5 seconds per request?? What on earth? Our entire app is React+Redux based, gathers a bunch of unique user data per-request from various apis and we still get

5 seconds per request?? What on earth? Our entire app is React+Redux based, gathers a bunch of unique user data per-request from various apis and we still get ~40-120ms response times (and that's on CDN cache misses). Hell, our Node server's connection timeout is 3 seconds and we only ever hit that due an APIs tanking or something.