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Latency Optimization

Top 5 Strategies to Reduce Latency

Explore top strategies to minimize latency in high-scale systems.

10 years ago, Amazon found that every 100ms of latency cost them 1% in sales. That’s a staggering $5.7 billion in today’s terms.

For high-scale user-facing systems, high latency is a big loss of revenue.

Here are the top strategies to reduce latency:

  • Database Indexing
  • Caching
  • Load Balancing
  • Content Delivery Network
  • Async Processing
  • Data Compression