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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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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 17th, 2018

High Scalability

12 million requests / hour with sub-second latency, ~300GB of throughput / day. it’s not Serverless anymore it’s running in a few containers on a kubernetes cluster. A much better way to do this would be to make a "next Logo" that would allow game players to make the AI brains needed by the robots. myelixirstatus !#Serverless.No

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Seamless offloading of web app computations from mobile device to edge clouds via HTML5 Web Worker migration

The Morning Paper

Edge servers are the middle ground – more compute power than a mobile device, but with latency of just a few ms. The client MWW combines these estimates with an estimate of the input/output transmission time (latency) to find the worker with the minimum overall execution latency.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud – Introducing the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region

All Things Distributed

They can run applications in Sweden, serve end users across the Nordics with lower latency, and leverage advanced technologies such as containers, serverless computing, and more. Supercell is a mobile game developer, based in Helsinki, Finland, with over 100 million people playing their games every single day.

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A one size fits all database doesn't fit anyone

All Things Distributed

Typical use cases for a relational database include web and mobile applications, enterprise applications, and online gaming. Use cases such as gaming, ad tech, and IoT lend themselves particularly well to the key-value data model where the access patterns require low-latency Gets/Puts for known key values.

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Expanding the Cloud: Amazon Machine Learning Service, the Amazon Elastic Filesystem and more

All Things Distributed

Developers really have flocked to using this serverless programming technology to build event driven services. Synchronous events operate with low latency so you can deliver dynamic, interactive experiences to your users. Amazon Lambda. One of the most exciting technologies we have built lately at AWS is Amazon Lambda.

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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Smashing Magazine

Platforms such as Snipcart , CommerceLayer , headless Shopify , and Stripe enable you to manage products in a friendly UI while taking advantage of the benefits of Jamstack: Amazon’s famous study reported that for every 100ms in latency, they lose 1% of sales. These workflows are game-changing , so why can’t we do the same thing for content?

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