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That’s true, but also networks can be fast. https://colin-scott.github.io/personal_website/research/interactive_latency.html https://colin-scott.github.io/pers

• marcosdumay 6y ago
  Well, yes, it can, and people exploit this in large datacenters all the time. That's one of the reasons people get huge, expensive machines full of disks that do nothing else. But none of this applies to your run of the mill REST web service.
• yen223 6y ago
  ... as long as the server isn't itself reading from a hard drive!