Ludicrously Fast Page Loads - A Guide for Full-Stack Devs

Server response times, while easy to track and instrument, are ultimately a meaningless performance metric from an end-user perspective. Actual end-user response to the word ‘microservices’ End-users don’t care how fast your super-turbocharged bare-metal Node.js server is - they care about the page being completely loaded as fast as possible. Your boss is breathing down your neck about the site being slow - but your Elixir-based microservices architecture has average server response times of 10 nanoseconds! What’s going on?.