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Re:There's no reason for software to be slow anymore by fhub on Saturday August 22, 2026 @02:14AM (#49397058)
1-5ms response time is clearly hard for most real world endpoints.
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Re:There's no reason for software to be slow anymore by fallingbananna on Saturday August 22, 2026 @03:59AM (#49397617)
I don't know how hard it is. But I can certainly say there is no business inscentive for it.

When it comes to improving performance by a few ms, or implementing a new feature, business people will always choose a new feature, unless the current performance is unbearably slow (we're talking regular 1.5s+ wait times for BE response).

And it's not even a modern problem, legacy software written 20 years ago has the same latency than most modern backends from my experience.

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Re:There's no reason for software to be slow anymore by eudamoniac on Saturday August 22, 2026 @02:50PM (#49402582)
When I worked at Cisco we had regular 10 second responses on our main flows (bad data model) and still couldn't get buy-in to fix it.
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