Scraping p50 stabilized at 2s: keep your app and databases colocated
DanielLockyer · x · 2026-09-28
Developer Yahia shared latency stats for /web/scrape requests (cache hits + misses): after colocating the application with its databases, p50 latency for scraping any page stabilized at 2s. Daniel Lockyer amplified the engineering lesson — keep your application and databases right next to each other, as network distance dominates latency.
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