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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. Last mile latency deals with the disproportionate complexity toward the terminus of a connection.

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Amazon DynamoDB ? a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database.

All Things Distributed

Amazon DynamoDB offers low, predictable latencies at any scale. The Amazon.com ecommerce platform consists of hundreds of decoupled services developed and managed in a decentralized fashion. Customers can typically achieve average service-side in the single-digit milliseconds. History of NoSQL at Amazon â??

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Most Common RabbitMQ Use Cases

Scalegrid

Use cases for RabbitMQ encompass areas like order processing in eCommerce, real-time notifications, and multiplayer gaming, showcasing its adaptability to different operational needs. RabbitMQ excels at managing asynchronous processing and reducing latency while distributing workloads effectively across the system.

Ecommerce 130
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A one size fits all database doesn't fit anyone

All Things Distributed

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. The purpose of DynamoDB is to provide consistent single-digit millisecond latency for any scale of workloads.

Database 166
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Ciao Milano! – An AWS Region is coming to Italy!

All Things Distributed

They now offer street maps, online advertising, mobile and web content creation, and ecommerce services. Since first launching in 1925, Seat Pagine Gialle has been looking to help companies to market themselves better, and has branched out from telephone directories. million households and over 3 million businesses in Italy.

AWS 164
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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. Today, Amazon Web Services has greater worldwide coverage with the launch of a new AWS Region in Sydney, Australia.

Cloud 91
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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Smashing Magazine

Visitors to an eCommerce site are on a path to paying money. 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.

Ecommerce 142