diff --git a/manage.py b/manage.py
index 325927414e..496e6f2701 100755
--- a/manage.py
+++ b/manage.py
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 from __future__ import (print_function)
 import os
 import sys
-import types
 import configparser
 if sys.version_info <= (3, 0):
     print("Error: Zulip is a Python 3 project, and cannot be run with Python 2.")
@@ -32,15 +31,6 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
         print("Error accessing Zulip secrets; manage.py in production must be run as the zulip user.")
         sys.exit(1)
 
-    # Performance Hack: We make the pika.adapters.twisted_connection
-    # module unavailable, to save ~100ms of import time for most Zulip
-    # management commands for code we don't use.  The correct
-    # long-term fix for this will be to get a setting integrated
-    # upstream to disable pika importing this.
-    #   See https://github.com/pika/pika/issues/1128
-    sys.modules['pika.adapters.twisted_connection'] = types.ModuleType(
-        'pika.adapters.twisted_connection')
-
     os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "zproject.settings")
     from django.conf import settings
     from django.core.management import execute_from_command_line
diff --git a/zproject/wsgi.py b/zproject/wsgi.py
index b00e13ee3a..9fbbafc561 100644
--- a/zproject/wsgi.py
+++ b/zproject/wsgi.py
@@ -15,21 +15,11 @@ framework.
 """
 import os
 import sys
-import types
 
 BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
 sys.path.append(BASE_DIR)
 import scripts.lib.setup_path_on_import
 
-# Performance Hack: We make the pika.adapters.twisted_connection
-# module unavailable, to save ~100ms of import time for most Zulip
-# management commands for code we don't use.  The correct
-# long-term fix for this will be to get a setting integrated
-# upstream to disable pika importing this.
-#   See https://github.com/pika/pika/issues/1128
-sys.modules['pika.adapters.twisted_connection'] = types.ModuleType(
-    'pika.adapters.twisted_connection')
-
 os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "zproject.settings")
 import django
 django.setup()  # We need to call setup to load applications.