I'm not talking about just establishing a session. My questioning there was just why Internet vs. local would be different. On a local network, I've gotten 70k

I'm not talking about just establishing a session. My questioning there was just why Internet vs. local would be different. On a local network, I've gotten 70k json CRUD requests out of a netty based service + postgresql with 4 cores and a single SSD. I imagine search is more complex and expensive than CRUD, but 80k isn't something you can only do with a "hello world" tier application.