• sudo@lemmy.today
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    Customer: Why is there so much latency over my tunnel from us-east to us-west?

    Me: checks latency seems pretty normal, what’s the issue?

    Customer: The latency is too much. Why is it not as fast as us-east-1 to us-east-2?

    Me: They are near each other. Us-West is across the entire United States

    Customer: Make faster

    Me: This is the speed of light. And over copper it’s about 2/3 that

    Customer: hmm are you sure that’s as fast as it can go?

    Me: Well, unless we change the laws of physics your not going to get any better latency

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        That’s cause they always have money in the lobbying budget to fix things.

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      Then you find out the real reason they need faster latency is because they’re pinging the server for new data every 1ms

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      Eh, sometimes they’re right about this one though. It’s true that a request traveling near light speed is as fast as it can possibly be, but what if it’s 17 requests? Sometimes you can fix latency by doing fewer transactions.

      edit: love a downvote with no reply. Just “No!” [stomps feet]