Fallacy of Distributed Computing: Latency is Zero

09/18/20 • 24 min

Udi Dahan posted (per usual) a great graphic that points out latency scaled to how we comprehend it. We add synchronous network calls to database, caches and other services without thinking of the latency it will add.

https://twitter.com/UdiDahan/status/1303694890992390144

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