Methods and systems may provide for identifying one or more visualization characteristics of a user interface (UI) associated with an application on a client device and generating a query plan based on the one or more visualization characteristics, a historical performance of a network infrastructure and a current status of the network infrastructure. In addition, a response to a query from the application may be generated in accordance with the query plan. In one example, generating the query plan includes selecting a number of elements in a responsive data set and/or selecting one or more of a plurality of service endpoints in the network infrastructure to handle the query based at least in part on the one or more visualization characteristics.