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		Tsarbomb on Jan 10, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Benchmarking DNS response times of TLDs Nothing wrong with preflight checks. What’s wrong is that a SPA will make 100 calls to a web server for data that isn’t even that complex. So much poor API design out there that most would be better off with server side rendering.

dragonwriter on Jan 10, 2020 [–]

> So much poor API design out there that most would be better off

...fixing the API design.

blowski on Jan 10, 2020 | [–]

Many inexperienced developers don't understand the difference in latency between a local memory call and a remote HTTP API call, so treat the two as equal in terms of architectural concerns.

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