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A triple handshake to a datacenter across the US is already ~80ms. It can be mitigated with HTTP2/3 but that still leaves you with not that much time to serve the request.

It's certainly doable, but not at all straightforward to make it reliable. A local app, on the other hand, does not depend on the network latency and the server load.



But then... if no network latency I would expect much better than 100ms.


It often is. I'm just saying that even for pretty complicated cases it's still within 100ms.




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