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THE HIDDEN LATENCY INSIDE YOUR DATABASE

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Summary from the TLDR Dev newsletter

Network-attached storage adds latency inside a database cluster, even when the application and database are close together. Local NVMe avoids that hop, but requires deliberate replication and failover to preserve durability. Workloads that fit mostly in RAM may see little benefit, while frequent cache misses and IOPS limits make storage placement worth examining.