It’s a good start but no guarantee. If you have a sequential chain of requests, for whatever reason, the number of round trips is determined by business logic.

It’s a good start but no guarantee. If you have a sequential chain of requests, for whatever reason, the number of round trips is determined by business logic. If you have anything like say a microservice/API request preceding another, you’ll see more round trips. Given the leftpad-as-a-service trend we’re seeing today, I would expect that to be quite common.