A different continent is usually a few hundred milliseconds away. (The worst delay I had in my life was between me in Europe and the target machines in Japan, a

A different continent is usually a few hundred milliseconds away. (The worst delay I had in my life was between me in Europe and the target machines in Japan, and the round-trip still was about a second.) The response time of an under-provisioned or poorly implemented API endpoint on a machine in the same rack can be multiple seconds though :(