Hear, hear! And not only is the stack you describe full of delays, several of the layers are outside of the control of the software in question and can just… f

Hear, hear! And not only is the stack you describe full of delays, several of the layers are outside of the control of the software in question and can just… fail! Sure, there are cases where I need my software to communicate with the outside world, but I get furious when some page with text on it dies because somewhere in a datacenter some NIC failed and thus the shitty webapp I was viewing fell over.