REST chattiness

Over the last few days I have given a try to very fine-granular implementation of the graph-data access over REST. As a result of that my client (backbone+marionette) -> server (nginx+passenger+RoR) turned out to be rather chatty, which is a potential performance threat. Here's what my chrome reported about it:

I think that handling over 110 requests in about 3 seconds sounds prety good. Especially taking into account that rendering happens after fetching list of issues related to the project - about 500ms after the start

The tested set-up is as follows:

• Server-side: ubuntu 11.04 VM running inside VirtualBox
• 4 cores of core 2 (6Mbyte of cache)
• 1GB of ram
• 8 nginx worker processes
• 100Mbit wired ethernet
  
• Proxy - CentOS VM running on some infrastructure
• node.js based http-proxy forwarding http and web-sockets
• single core, 1GB ram, 100 or 1000Mbit ethernet
  
• Client -side - OSX with Google Chrome (24.0 - Canary) 
• 8 Cores of i7
• 8GB of ram (ton of applications running)
• 100Mbit, wired ethernet

I don't know about you, but this sounds fairly good to me.