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Re:The fastest de-referer service... with AWS Global Acceler... by programmer_dude on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @04:09AM (#29159330)
LOL, why do you need an "accelerator" for this?
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Re:The fastest de-referer service... with AWS Global Acceler... by orf on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @04:40AM (#29159529)
It’s explained in detail in the article.
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Re:The fastest de-referer service... with AWS Global Acceler... by mcintyre1994 on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @04:28AM (#29159449)
It's about accelerating the networking performance from the user to a server doing the work. You don't need to do it but it's always going to be a limit on performance if you don't, no matter how fast you make the application server itself.
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