Comment 1 for bug 823352

So there is the 'open-tunnel' command, which does help quite a bit as it reduces the latency, but its not obvious how to use it.

It might make sense to focus on a local resident program that caches information and updates in realtime from zookeeper, so only write operations carry the latency. This would speed up status to nearly instant, and cause some of the other things to be faster such as evaluating formula relationships during add-relation.