On: Global average response times from EC2 regions

[cwp]

Wow, wish I could have seen that talk. I recently got similar results by doing client-side load balancing: 27% improvement, on average, for users that were not close to EC2 East.

See http://instantdomainsearch.com/articles/faster_domain_name_s... and (very brief) HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3045333

[rkalla → cwp]

For what it's worth, I liked the article and the idea of client-side real time balancing presented in the article when you submitted it.

Something similar happened when I launched http://hnnotify.com -- got 24 up votes and then it crawled into oblivion <shrug>

[andypants → cwp]

Wow, that's very cool. Your search is indeed very fast, it feels nearly instant!