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What is Latency, and How Can You Address It?

Marco Zacchello

Mar 1, 2023
As the world grows increasingly interconnected, it can be easy to forget that the digital applications we use every day do still have a presence in the physical world. The underlying data centers and network infrastructure that make those applications possible all have to be located somewhere, and exactly where they’re located can have a big impact on performance and user experience. This is due to the concept known as latency, or more specifically, network latency. Any time data packets cross a network, there’s a built-in upper limit to how fast they can travel. “Latency” refers to the delay that…

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Posted by Marco Zacchello on Mar 1, 2023

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