The document discusses how pipelining commands can improve performance when making requests to Redis over a network. It shows that pipelining multiple commands together can increase throughput significantly by reducing the number of round trips needed to the server. The document provides a benchmark showing single commands getting 17k requests/second while pipelined commands achieve 260k requests/second. It also demonstrates how to simulate network latency using Toxiproxy to throttle connections and see even larger gains from pipelining when there is network overhead. The RedPipe library is introduced as a way to pipeline commands while still maintaining a familiar API and handling responses with futures to avoid blocking.