That’s what those tiny 1KB requests are doing mostly, downloading indexes. With http pipelining taken into account, it’s way faster than trying to preload the f

That’s what those tiny 1KB requests are doing mostly, downloading indexes. With http pipelining taken into account, it’s way faster than trying to preload the full index data. Despite the number of requests seeming excessive to us, the performance of this setup is already in the ballpark of your usual underpowered MySQL going through an app server.