remote: concurrent blob downloads. Fixes #5215

This change introduces concurrent downloads of action outputs
for remote caching/execution. So far, for an action we would
download one output after the other which isn't as bad as it
sounds as we would typically run dozens or hundreds of actions
in parallel. However, for actions with a lot of outputs or graphs
that allow limited parallelism we expect this change to positively
impact performance.

Note, that with this change the AbstractRemoteActionCache will
attempt to always download all outputs concurrently. The actual
parallelism is controlled by the underlying network transport.
The gRPC transport currently enforces no limits on the concurrent
calls, which should be fine given that all calls are multiplexed
on a single network connection. The HTTP/1.1 transport also
enforces no parallelism by default, but I have added the
--remote_max_connections=INT flag which allows to specify an upper
bound on the number of network connections to be open concurrently.
I have introduced this flag as a defensive mechanism for users
who's environment might enforce an upper bound on the number of open
connections, as with this change its possible for the number of
concurrently open connections to dramatically increase (from
NumParallelActions to NumParallelActions * SumParallelActionOutputs).

A side effect of this change is that it puts the infrastructure
for retries and circuit breaking for the HttpBlobStore in place.

RELNOTES: None
PiperOrigin-RevId: 199005510
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