By default, use net_http_persistent adapter

[bpedro]

What?

Start using the net_http_persistent Faraday adapter by default.

Why?

To improve HTTPS loading times, taking advantage of persistence features such as keep-alive.

[franciscoj]

👍

[jrom]

It would be good to add in the PR description some sort of benchmark with this change to approve that it actually improves something. 💬 ➕ 👍

[andresgutgon]

🍏 👍

[sauloperez]

agree with @jrom 🍏 👍

[alexandrebini]

🍏 👍

[jrom]

Copying from the task:

Here's a preliminary performance analysis for backing up an organization with the following items:
2 projects
71 users
7 task lists
40 tasks
330 files
(ZIP file size is 716MB)
Here are the performance results using different strategies:
SimpleTree: 13m42.250s
SimpleTree + API calls keep-alive: 9m21.703s
FastTree with 8 threads + API calls keep-alive: 5m32.223s