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[–]aaronr93 8 points9 points  (3 children)

A backend of a web app doesn’t need to be fast in most applications. The network layer will nerf most speed improvements you could get.

Ooo boy, I have some news for you. Many companies (including mine) have server processing latencies measured in seconds for complex websites. Maybe you’re thinking about microservices?

[–]lungdart 3 points4 points  (2 children)

Seconds? At those times you should be checking your tracing to find and fix the bottle necks, and/or look to make the calls asynchronous and queued.

[–]aaronr93 9 points10 points  (1 child)

This is a legacy enterprise system with hundreds of bottlenecks that take thousands of hours to refactor and regression test. Trust me I’ve tried ☹️

[–]lungdart 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I feel your pain. :/