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For many (if not most) use cases, the latency is more important than the compute.
by Laaas 4y ago
For many (if not most) use cases, the latency is more important than the compute.
- nwienert 4y agoDefinitely not true for my very common use case of Postgres + Hasura + Node API. Especially the DB is way faster based on compute. You're talking ~300+ms gains in perf just in the DB layer, with the graph and node layers also getting significant bumps. I was seeing a single dedicated host in Virginia be way, way faster (like 80% faster reply times) than the top of the line cluster that was in Phoenix (at the time very close to me). If you are serving a page that needs to do a few joins across a non-trivial dataset that's all it requires to immediately tilt the equation completely back to raw CPU being the dramatic deciding factor in speed.