A lot of these decisions can be made with a bit of "back of the envelope calculations"; playing with orders of magnitudes based on latency times: http://highsc

A lot of these decisions can be made with a bit of "back of the envelope calculations"; playing with orders of magnitudes based on latency times: http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/1/26/google-pro-tip-use-back-of-the-envelope-calculations-to-choo.html http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/1/26/google-pro-tip-use... https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~rcs/research/interactive_latency.html https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~rcs/research/interactive_l...