Hey,
Are the claims a large part of the network traffic for items you are
processing? Some client time might be saved by lazy loading the claim objects from _content. The claims data is even smaller when using raw revisions instead of the API JSON.
Is the size of the serialization something that is causing problems?
Cheers
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