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Re:Building With Workers KV, a Fast Distributed Key-Value Store by sephware on Friday September 28, 2018 @08:48AM (#18092858)
> Reading values from Workers KV is designed to have the same reliability as reading static files, making it much less likely to become unavailable than a traditional database. It’s designed to have the same performance as reading a file cached within our network, close to your users, giving it the speed of serving a static file as well.

I wonder how this kind of speed is achieved with an API that has to go over the network? Even if the round trip is short such as between two AWS services, there's always at least some latency.

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Re:Building With Workers KV, a Fast Distributed Key-Value Store by manigandham on Friday September 28, 2018 @08:59AM (#18092925)
Reading cached files goes over the network too. CDN servers share the cache load and have just 1 or a few copies per datacenter that are served by every machine there.

It's likely that this KV store is built on top of the existing cache storage layer, which would also explain the eventual consistency and high-reads with low-writes.

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