I live in a well connected city, but my work only pays for other continent based Virtual Machines so most of my projects end up "fast" but latency bound, it's b

I live in a well connected city, but my work only pays for other continent based Virtual Machines so most of my projects end up "fast" but latency bound, it's been an interesting exercise of minimizing pointless roundtrips in a technology that expects you to use them for everyting