{"id":25950,"date":"2016-03-17T10:35:36","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T08:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=25950"},"modified":"2016-03-17T10:35:36","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T08:35:36","slug":"latency-numbers-by-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2016\/03\/17\/latency-numbers-by-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Latency numbers by year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last year I came across a nice chart of latency numbers every programmer should know<\/a>. \u00a0Today, I saw this page<\/a>, which shows you the same latency numbers, but also provides a timeline from 1990 to 2020.<\/p>\n

For some operations, latency is constant, because it’s based on things of nature – speed of light, distance between continents, etc. \u00a0For other operations, latency can be decreased through better technology and algorithms.<\/p>\n

The timeline clearly shows the mind-blowing advance we’ve experienced in technology over the last three decades.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Last year I came across a nice chart of latency numbers every programmer should know. \u00a0Today, I saw this page, which shows you the same latency numbers, but also provides a timeline from 1990 to 2020. For some operations, latency is constant, because it’s based on things of nature – speed of light, distance between … Continue reading Latency numbers by year<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Latency numbers by year #programming #WebDev #performance #history","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,18,62],"tags":[286,246,1057,1330],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-25950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-programming","category-technology","tag-history","tag-optimization","tag-performance","tag-web-development"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24721,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2015\/09\/11\/latency-numbers-every-programmer-should-know\/","url_meta":{"origin":25950,"position":0},"title":"Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"September 11, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm saving this here for current and future generations of programmers: This is a copy-paste of this gist, referenced from this blog post. 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