You removed the CDN and the site got slower?
How do you know your site was the one that was fast or just the CDN? IE, the CDN should have added a lot of extra hops and made things slower.
To me, this implies the rust code is very poor at opening and closing connections, so the CDNs keep alive is pasting over that issue.
Cool article though. Agree on the ructe part, and I dislike how whitespace is handled. I wish Jade/Pug templates could be done in rust but will check out Maud.
Is the Internet not connected internationally (US -> Europe for example) via cables underneath the ocean? Speed of light would be satellite, light? Not electric current?
Or is electricity flowing through a wire also "speed of light"?
Second of all, electrical signals in cables move at speeds slightly lower than c, but very close to it, so the speed of light is still a very good approximation of the possible upper bound.
Third of all, intercontinental cables are normally fiber optic, for several reasons. That is, they directly transmit light through the cable.
Fourth, it should be noted that electricity is actually the same thing as light, since photons are the carrier particles of the electric field (when two charged particles interact, they are actually exchanging a photon). It's of course not visible light, but satellite communication also uses radio waves normally, which are not visible light either.
Finally, either through cables or through satellite communication, the distance/c minimum theoretical one-way latency is usually a significant under-estimation of the actually possible minimal latency, since the straight-line distance is significantly shorter than the actual cable/satellite-and-back distance that the signals must travel - the difference in straight-line VS physical path distance is typically much larger than the difference between the theoretical speed of light and the actual speed of the electrical signal propagation.
