Performance, part 6 — Europe
The location of the Cool Maze - Push to Computer servers used to have only a minimal impact on performance. After several unrelated optimizations, this is no longer true! The physical distance from the user to the servers, and the associated network delays, are now on the critical path, accounting for a large part of the various latencies.
Good news: users in Europe are now enjoying new servers located in Belgium.
The impact of this deployment on Upload and Download latencies was spectacular: a speedup of over 2x.
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| Upload and Download durations of a resized photo, in milliseconds |
| Smaller is better |