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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. Since we’re talking about mobile applications, we have to assume a changing environment over time, including the possibility of losing internet connectivity altogether. The Mobile Web Worker (MWW) System.

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A one size fits all database doesn't fit anyone

All Things Distributed

We are increasingly seeing customers wanting to build Internet-scale applications that require diverse data models. Typical use cases for a relational database include web and mobile applications, enterprise applications, and online gaming. Purpose-built databases. Queries that used to take 30 seconds now take one second.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For January 25th, 2019

High Scalability

TServerless : We sat with a solution architect, apparently they are aware of the latency issue and suggested to ditch api gw and build our own solution. Stand under Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 (35 nearly 5 star reviews). 10% : Netflix captured screen time in US; 8.3 7x : faster PyPy python; 9B : gallons of water/day for lawns; 2.6

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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Smashing Magazine

I had my website with funny photos and links to favorite websites live on the internet, and better yet, I could edit directly on the server. It’s safe to say WordPress, the platform now powering 40% of the internet, won that battle, but MovableType paved the way for Jamstack CMSs in the future. But, when it worked, it was magical.

Ecommerce 140
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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. Two areas where Lambda is driving a lot of innovation is Mobile and the Internet of Things (IoT). Synchronous events operate with low latency so you can deliver dynamic, interactive experiences to your users.

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