Slow-ish performance on requests, even locally

Seeing about 124ms response time from the server when doing a post to api.website.com with the app hosted on app.website.com I thought it was due to cloudflare. In my local setup api.server.local:9090 (appwrite) app on localhost:3000 produces 640ms response time. Are there any ways to reduce this ?

Now, I know it's not THAT slow but I would expect it to be near-instant, shouldn't it be ?

TL;DR

Developers are experiencing slow response times when making requests locally, even within the same network. They are getting responses in the range of 124ms to 640ms. The expectation is that response times should be near-instant. The issue might be related to the setup or configuration. To potentially reduce the response time, they could look into optimizing the network configuration, reviewing the server settings, and checking for any bottlenecks in the system.