Engineer(s):  neal.beeken@mongodb.com   2025-07-31 : Target date set to October 9th 2025 Rationale for any project delays/change in end date/etc, if applicable Latency has been identified as a key issue for a GA release that removes access to legacy DE, so we reprioritized the work in this epic. The deadline for these changes is moved out because of the slow down on burning down the work in this epic Made progress on investigations in parallel with other work (Neal was working on Dependency upgrades) Captured visualizations for gains made from more initial compass commands that were removable Determined "sorting" the connection string by primary first does improve the connection time significantly What's the focus over the next two weeks? Finalizing the "sort" by primary improvement Code review for the new communication protocol that cuts down on RTTs Any risks/blockers/impediments? None Anything else to share? None 2025-07-16 : Target date set to * on hold * Rationale for any project delays/change in end date/etc, if applicable In an effort to focus on GA priorities we are stopping work on this to make sure we paydown the backlog of fixes needed for a GA release. What was accomplished since the last update? Socket pre-creation merged. Multithreading merged. One less ping (of two) on start up fixed. What's the focus over the next two weeks? MDE GA priorities. Not this EPIC. Any risks/blockers/impediments? Re-prioritizing as planned. Anything else to share? None 2025-07-01 : Target date set to 2025-09-12 What was accomplished since the last update? Visualization for connection latencies completed informed the planning for the work in this EPIC Pre-created primary connections in progress confirmed the visualization can be used to debug and document progress on the issue What's the focus over the next two weeks? Wrap up socket pre-creation Finalize introducing multithreading for handling each websocket event (as opposed to a thread per websocket)  Start on avoiding running ping commands on start Any risks/blockers/impediments? None Anything else to share? None