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

CSS Wizardry

The first—and often most surprising for people to learn—thing that I want to draw your attention to is that TTFB counts one whole round trip of latency. The reason is because mobile networks are, as a rule, high latency connections. Armed with this knowledge, we can soon understand why TTFB can often increase so dramatically on mobile.

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Ciao Milano! – An AWS Region is coming to Italy!

All Things Distributed

Currently we have 57 Availability Zones across 19 technology infrastructure Regions. Lamborghini, the world-famous manufacturer of elite, luxury sports cars based in Italy, has been using AWS to reduce the cost of their infrastructure by 50 percent, while also achieving better performance and scalability.

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Expanding the Cloud ? introducing the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region.

All Things Distributed

This new Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region has been highly requested by companies worldwide, and it provides low latency access to AWS services for those who target customers in Australia and New Zealand. You can learn more about our growing global infrastructure footprint at [link]. blog comments powered by Disqus.

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

MachMetrics

However, there is excitement around Starlink for other reasons – namely, the implications it might have for internet speed and latency – even by just a small amount (20 milliseconds on average). Starlink’s Goal: Reduce Internet Latency. What does Starlink and Reduced Latency have to do with me?

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

IO River

This type of traffic originates directly from the server, making it more challenging to handle due to latency and server load considerations; it’s hard but not impossible. Statistics reveal that a 1% improvement in latency can lead to a 3% increase in viewer engagement, highlighting its significance in live content delivery.3.

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

IO River

This type of traffic originates directly from the server, making it more challenging to handle due to latency and server load considerations; it’s hard but not impossible. Statistics reveal that a 1% improvement in latency can lead to a 3% increase in viewer engagement, highlighting its significance in live content delivery.3.

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Scalable MicroService Architecture

VoltDB

Think of a monolithic application eCommerce application (albeit, super simplified scope) that has the following modules: Each of these functions could have different utilization levels and to have an entire application to scale to the maximum level is going to be consuming resources incongruent to utilization. Real-World Example Problem.