Re: Redis 16 times faster than Postgres?

On 9/29/19 7:01 PM, Morris de Oryx wrote:
> Sigh. I despair of "16x faster" and "20x faster" headlines that ignore the 
> raw numbers. *The worst numbers in there are far below the threshold of 
> user perception*. Unless these results are compounded by running in a 
> loop, they are meaningless. Not immeasurable, just meaningless.
>
> https://www.nngroup.com/articles/response-times-3-important-limits/
>
> That piece is from 1993, but the human nervous system hasn't changed since 
> then.

Back-end web servers don't have human nervous systems. Faster response time 
means that a give bit of hardware can support a much higher load, saving you 
money

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