In my experience, real world applications mostly do deal with basically trivial requests (e.g. simple CRUD with some auth checks). The starting point I'm used t

In my experience, real world applications mostly do deal with basically trivial requests (e.g. simple CRUD with some auth checks). The starting point I'm used to for multiple web frameworks is in the thousands of requests/second. Something like telemetry is definitely trivial, and should be easy to batch to get into the 10s of thousands of requests/second. The 25 ms request you mentioned in another comment is what I'd categorize as extremely CPU intensive.