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by RaisingSpear 1051 days ago
Doesn't seem redundant to me. Even if you can multiplex requests, batches still have certain advantages, e.g.

- compression is often more efficient with larger payloads

- can reduce per-request overheads, e.g. do authentication once rather than X times

- easier to coalesce multiple queries, e.g. merge similar requests to enable data retrieval via a bulk query, instead of X individual queries