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by inputcoffee 3553 days ago
Maybe more experienced people can see the effects of various architecture decisions, but it would be great if the diagram explained how adding a node in the diagram adds or subtracts to user wait times, or speed or something.

Can experienced users tell: oh yeah, that extra caching layer will let them handle a million more users at peak time keeping lags below 2 secs?