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I've always imagined that the reason that FastMail's web UI is so fast and responsive is because their developers are based in Australia, but their main server

by polpo 10y ago

I've always imagined that the reason that FastMail's web UI is so fast and responsive is because their developers are based in Australia, but their main server presence is in New York. They're optimizing for speed when communicating with a server halfway across the globe, and that benefits everyone.

nmjenkins 10y ago
Nailed it. I work on FastMail's web UI and we really care about latency mitigation; we know if we can make it fast with 300ms round trip times, it will be insanely fast for customers with shorter ping times.
- navs 10y ago
  Bravo! This and the comments above have convinced me. I'm subscribing with my next paycheck :)