So, he is using an example of traditional media-heavy web sites in this specific case, but the general case still holds for many web applications such as: - Go

So, he is using an example of traditional media-heavy web sites in this specific case, but the general case still holds for many web applications such as: - Google (you hit many search nodes to get the results for a single search, and Google goes to some effort to make sure you get back both accurate and fast responses) - Facebook (there are many distinct services that have to be queried to render any FB page) - YouTube (union of the above) - etc Now, I hope the engineers building these sites understand the points he is making, but they stand true either way.