How One await Cut My Response Time in Half ⚡
Aleksei Aleinikov

Aleksei Aleinikov @aleksei_aleinikov

About: My interests range from building complex algorithms and designing high-performance systems to applying AI to solve real-world challenges.

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How One await Cut My Response Time in Half ⚡

Publish Date: Sep 3 '25
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Sometimes a single misplaced await fetch() adds hundreds of ms to your p95.

In my new article, I show 3 practical fixes I use in 2025 to speed up APIs without rewriting the stack:
✅ Keep connections warm & pooled
✅ Stream big responses instead of blocking on .json()
✅ Kill “await-in-a-loop” with bounded concurrency

👉 Read the full guide and learn how small changes tame latency spikes.
https://javascript.plainenglish.io/i-cut-the-response-time-nearly-in-half-by-moving-one-await-in-2025-heres-what-changed-1f64ed24da19

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