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Sometimes you need to display collated data on a page. For example, Basecamp has a useful dashboard which displays all the latest activity across all your projects. I’ve been working on an application that provides Basecamp access to mobile devices, and I realised that reproducing this dashboard would be far too API-intensive to be usable.
It can take anything from 20-1000ms to complete a request using the API, depending on the number of hops the request goes through over the network and how fast the application at the other end responds. So if you want to gather the data Basecam…
