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SpaceX Spending $10 Billion to Make the Internet 20ms Faster

MachMetrics

A lot of coverage on this project is centered (rightfully) around the potential of this project to deliver fast internet to underdeveloped nations at a minimal cost. Starlink’s Goal: Reduce Internet Latency. The amount of money that companies are investing in infrastructure to reduce latency by a few milliseconds is staggering.

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Time to First Byte: What It Is and Why It Matters

CSS Wizardry

This is why serving your content from a CDN is so important: even in the internet age, being geographically closer to your customers is advantageous. A trip from a device in London to a server in New York has a theoretical best-case speed of 28ms over fibre, but this makes lots of very optimistic assumptions. Expect closer to 75ms.

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

IO River

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. BandwidthImagine the internet as a ramified web of pipelines, each varying in size. A video, being a digital asset, is also based on these two parts.

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

IO River

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. BandwidthImagine the internet as a ramified web of pipelines, each varying in size. A video, being a digital asset, is also based on these two parts.

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The Ultimate Guide to Open Source Databases

Percona

Companies can more easily scale infrastructure — up or down — to meet economic conditions and changing business objectives. MySQL is a popular solution for designing database systems for eCommerce stores. No vendor lock-in Open source software is free of proprietary restrictions that can come with vendor lock-in.

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Real-Time Digital Twins Can Help Expedite Vaccine Distribution

ScaleOut Software

Widely used to track ecommerce shopping carts, financial transactions, airline flights and much more, in-memory computing can quickly store, retrieve, and analyze large volumes of live data. Its two core competencies are speed and scalability. Let’s take a closer look at the real-time digital twin for a vaccination center.

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Amazon DynamoDB ? a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database.

All Things Distributed

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications. By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM. Comments ().