What CDN would you recommend? Latency is Everywhere and it Costs You Sales - How to Crush it. Update 8: The Cost of Latency by James Hamilton.
James summarizing some latency info from Steve Souder, Greg Linden, and Marissa Mayer. Speed [is] an undervalued and under-discussed asset on the web. Update 7: How do you know when you need more memcache servers?. Dathan Pattishall talks about using memcache not to scale, but to reduce latency and reduce I/O spikes, and how to use stats to know when more servers are needed.Update 6: Stock Traders Find Speed Pays, in Milliseconds. Goldman Sachs is making record profits off a 500 millisecond trading advantage. Scaling Long Running Web Services. Bryan Wheeler, Director Platform Development at msnbc.com “Udi Dahan is the real deal.
We brought him on site to give our development staff the 5-day “Advanced Distributed System Design” training. The course profoundly changed our understanding and approach to SOA and distributed systems.