{"id":4759,"date":"2012-11-16T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2447387"},"modified":"2012-11-16T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T15:00:00","slug":"back-to-basics-the-theory-of-performance-relativity-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/back-to-basics-the-theory-of-performance-relativity-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to Basics: The Theory of (Performance) Relativity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the primary reasons folks use a Load balancer is scalability with a secondary driver of maintaining performance. We all know the data exists to prove that &#8220;seconds matter&#8221; and current users of the web have itchy fingers, ready to head for the competition the microsecond they experience any kind of delay.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, we know that productivity is inherently tied to performance. With more and more critical business functions &#8220;webified&#8221;, the longer it takes to load a page the longer the delay a customer or help desk service representative experiences, reducing the number of calls or customers that can be serviced in any given measurable period.<br \/>\nSo performance is paramount, I see no reason to persuade you further to come to that conclusion. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2447387\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the primary reasons folks use a Load balancer is scalability with a secondary driver of maintaining performance. We all know the data exists to prove that &#8220;seconds matter&#8221; and current users of the web have itchy fingers, ready to head for the co&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}