The important thing to remember is that unless you're running a massive service, requests per second is less important than seconds per request. Getting an API

The important thing to remember is that unless you're running a massive service, requests per second is less important than seconds per request. Getting an API hit from 300ms to 70ms, and proper frontend caching is far more valuable than concurrency (if you can afford to throw servers at it) because it actually affects user performance.