Nicholaos Mouzourakis, Staff Product Security Engineer at Gusto, explains how batch authorization significantly improves Open Policy Agent (OPA) performance in Kubernetes environments. He shares how packing multiple authorization requests into a single HTTP call dramatically reduces network latency overhead.

The performance gains are substantial - batch requests process approximately 18 times faster than individual requests. Nicholaos explains that while adding requests to an existing batch is "negligible and basically free," teams should carefully consider dependencies between authorization requests.

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