Imagine a busy highway. Every car leaving your house needs to exit, come to a complete stop, and then re-enter the highway to visit each store. This would be incredibly inefficient, right? HTTP requests work similarly by default, creating a new connection for each request. This can overwhelm your server on a large scale because
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