Networking & Content Delivery
Tag: Low Latency
Lowering Latency by Moving OPTIONS to the Edge
At IMDb, we run a Federated GraphQL Gateway on AWS Lambda that backs our website and apps and handles over 10,000 peak TPS. For more information about how we built that, see our three posts: building GraphQL on Lambda, managing federated schemas, and monitoring and tuning. As our website adds more features that call GraphQL […]
TCP BBR Congestion Control with Amazon CloudFront
One of the fundamental value propositions of a content delivery network (CDN) is performance. Two of the key aspects of great performance are latency and throughput: that is, delivering a large volume of bits quickly and consistently. These attributes play a critical role in content delivery of all kinds, from video streams to API calls. […]