> Honestly I have no idea how they do it on a .NET monolith but there you go. Low latency in a single rack can work wonders for performance. All those cloud se

> Honestly I have no idea how they do it on a .NET monolith but there you go. Low latency in a single rack can work wonders for performance. All those cloud services talk to each other over miles of cables and if you can slash latency to submillisecond regions, you get less wait time and free resources quicker. If you don't distribute your state across multiple Microservices, you can also save quite a bit of overhead. Plus hardware is just wicked fast nowadays and SO has a model of millions of reads for a single write.