On Apr 9, 2014 12:16 PM, "Gilles Dubuc" <gilles@wikimedia.org> wrote:
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> Another secondary thing we can improve (and which we've mentioned in passing during previous meetings) is to cache the results of our API requests across users, presumably at the squid level. I've emailed Ops to see what can be done in that area.

Api has support for doing this already. See smaxage url parameter and getCacheMode method.

--bawolff