"One cool, super-advanced trick you can use to reduce latency for simple queries by 95%!" Then you read the article and it's just running the app and DB on the

"One cool, super-advanced trick you can use to reduce latency for simple queries by 95%!" Then you read the article and it's just running the app and DB on the same physical server, and communicating over local sockets rather than a TCP/IP stack through various virtualization layers and across several networks, real and virtual—so, partying like it's 1999.