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Latency vs. Throughput: Navigating the Digital Highway

VoltDB

In this fast-paced ecosystem, two vital elements determine the efficiency of this traffic: latency and throughput. LATENCY: THE WAITING GAME Latency is like the time you spend waiting in line at your local coffee shop. All these moments combined represent latency – the time it takes for your order to reach your hands.

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Optimizing Video Streaming CDN Architecture for Cost Reduction and Enhanced Streaming Performance

IO River

Now, with viewers all over the world expecting flawless and high-definition streaming, video providers have their work cut out for them. Fundamentally, internet traffic can be broadly categorized into static and dynamic content. Yes, it’s a single file, but that’s not how it’s stored on the internet.

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Optimizing Video Streaming CDN Architecture for Cost Reduction and Enhanced Streaming Performance

IO River

Now, with viewers all over the world expecting flawless and high-definition streaming, video providers have their work cut out for them. Fundamentally, internet traffic can be broadly categorized into static and dynamic content. Yes, it’s a single file, but that’s not how it’s stored on the internet. Those days are long gone.

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Best Free DNS Hosting Providers

KeyCDN

DNS, which stands for domain name system , is an Internet service that translates domains names into IP addresses. You can think of a DNS server as a phone book for the internet. So DNS services definitely go down! Using a fast DNS hosting provider ensures there is less latency between the DNS lookup and TTFB.

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Desktop Application Testing vs Web Application Testing

Testsigma

Some are accessed via the internet while some of them are installed on the user’s computer. Let’s briefly describe the basic definitions of each of them first and then describe in detail the underlying differences that make them fall apart in certifying the quality of each of them. These have clients and servers in their architecture.

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Monitoring Distributed Systems

Dotcom-Montior

By definition, a distributed system is any system that comprises of multiple components on variety of machines that work together to appear as a single, organized system. Although the definition may seem straightforward, in the real-world, a distributed system is one of the most complex environments to understand, manage, and monitor.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For January 25th, 2019

High Scalability

TServerless : We sat with a solution architect, apparently they are aware of the latency issue and suggested to ditch api gw and build our own solution. Right now api gw is good enough for our poc, but definitely not for our production load. I'll be more than happy to talk about it in person.