“There is an old network saying: Bandwidth problems can be cured with money. Latency problems are harder because the speed of light is fixed—you can’t bribe God.” —Anonymous (1/3)
Suggested ways to improve latency are caching, replication, better branch prediction etc. But since then we have also seen trends in using durable in-memory databases increase e.g. Redis, VoltDB etc. Also we have seen rise of faster storage media like SSDs. (2/3)
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“There is an old network saying: Bandwidth problems can be cured with money. Latency problems are harder because the speed of light is fixed—you can’t bribe God.” —Anonymous (1/3)
Link to the article: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1022594.1022596