Handy 🧵 measuring latency for various firehose topologies
It's always nice when infra teams have optimized away every other bottleneck + you're down to the pure physics of geography
Paul Rohr
And that's on the global firehose, which skews US. Currently 46% of Sifa's users are on @eurosky.social PDSes.
Those events stay in-region 🇪🇺 via Eurosky but cross the Atlantic twice via Bluesky, so for our actual traffic the lead is bigger.
