10 years ago, Amazon found that every 100ms of latency cost them 1% in sales. That’s a staggering $5.7 billion in today’s terms.
For high-scale user-facing systems, high latency is a big loss of revenue.
Here are the top strategies to reduce latency:
- Database Indexing
- Caching
- Load Balancing
- Content Delivery Network
- Async Processing
- Data Compression