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		mlhpdx 15 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fast Is S3 slow or fast? It’s both, as far as I can tell and represents a class of systems (mine included) that go slow to go fast. S3 is “slow” at the level of a single request. It’s fast at the level of making as many requests as needed in parallel. Being “fast” is sometimes critical, and often aesthetic.

claytonjy 15 days ago [–]

We have common words for those two flavors of “fast” already: latency and throughput. S3 has high latency (arguable!), but very very high throughput.

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