Kristian Quirapas

Latency, bandwidth, and IBRL explained

Classically, we define these terms as follows: latency is the time it takes for data to reach its destination. Bandwidth is the maximum number of bits that can pass through a given path of wire at the same time.

Boosting the JavaScript gRPC SDK with NaaE

When you stream gigabytes of account updates, the default @grpc/grpc-js library forces your application to choose between processing data or receiving it. It cannot do both efficiently. The result is artificial latency – not from the network, but from the library itself choking on deserialisation.