Its too application centric to be honest to give good generics unless you've built something similar before. > As a concrete example, say you have an ecommerce

Its too application centric to be honest to give good generics unless you've built something similar before. > As a concrete example, say you have an ecommerce app. Read requests take 80ms while write takes 200ms. An ecommerce site can be nearly 100% cached except for cart/session/search data. This gives it a massive advantage over everything else (since you can load the non-cached data via js and its relatively tiny). I think the last time I benchmarked one of our front end servers it was ~500 r/s on 2 cores for our search page. You really aren't going to know until you try it and benchmark it yourself tho.