High Scalability

MARCH 22, 2019

Hell, many of these providers are just providing open source API compatibility with custom-built backends! What happens when no new open source comes out of the smaller companies, and the big-3 decide they don't really need or want to play nice anymore? slobodan_ : "It is serverless the same way WiFi is wireless.

Internet 134

Internet Internet Scalability Wireless 134

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2021

Because we are dealing with network protocols here, we will mainly look at network aspects, of which two are most important: latency and bandwidth. Latency can be roughly defined as the time it takes to send a packet from point A (say, the client) to point B (the server). Two-way latency is often called round-trip time (RTT).

Performance 106

Performance Network Latency Servers 106

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Finally, not inlining resources has an added latency cost because the file needs to be requested. As discussed in part 2 , in HTTP/2, this multiplexing is steered using its prioritization system. As also explained in part 2 , HTTP/3 fundamentally changes the internals of this prioritization system.

Network 105

Network Servers Cache Traffic 105