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by pulsarpietro 2944 days ago
Yeah, same pattern applies so many times, Slack -> IRC + WEB and many others.

>Now that north-south traffic is dwarfed by east-west >traffic in every system [this means that north is the >client, south is your "DB", and east-west just means >services in your system, and since people nowadays use a >lot more complicated systems, the inter-component = >intra-system communication is huge, compared to the few >MBs sent to the client].)

Never thought about it, in those terms.