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Mike Kingaahh latency
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People hate waiting and they're repulsed by seemingly small delays.
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Loosely Couple Components. Loose coupling has a number of benifits: Tightly coupled systems are impossible distribute across data centers, tightly couples systems fail together, and loosely coupled systems can be independently scaled and engineered for latency.
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chris brinkmanLatency matters. Amazon found every 100ms of latency cost them 1% in sales. Google found an extra .5 seconds in search page generation time dropped traffic by 20%. A broker could lose $4 million in revenues per millisecond if their electronic trading platform is 5 milliseconds behind the competition.
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Brent SordylStuart's major point: If you have a network link with low bandwidth then it's an easy matter of putting several in parallel to make a combined link with higher bandwidth, but if you have a network link with bad latency then no amount of money can turn any
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