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by lokiju 2179 days ago
I see, thanks. The uses for locality seem a little niche though no? Are the benefits that much greater that it would be noticeable to users?
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You can see hundreds of ms of latency per request based purely on distance.

Tokyo - NYC is ~175 ms and that’s a good route. Compound that by all the requests you app does.