Latency can be a major factor in your product adoption, as users are looking for faster applications. It doesn't matter where your users are located, you need to provide a reliable service for your product to grow. You may not be able to achieve zero latency, but the goal should be to reduce response time within the user tolerance limit.
Latency is the time delay between the user sending a request and receiving the desired response. As shown in the following diagram, it takes 600 ms for a client to send a request to the server and 900 ms for the server to respond, which introduces a total latency of 1.5 seconds (1500 ms):
Most of the application needs to access the internet in order to have a diverse set of global users. These users are expecting consistency in performance, regardless of their geographical location. This is sometimes challenging, as it takes time to move data over the network from one part of the...
