Units of scale
One last thing to consider when thinking about Linux and the cloud is the scale of things. Jeff Dean, a prominent computer scientist at Google, gave a talk in 2002 about latency numbers every engineer should know based on research from Peter Norvig (https://norvig.com/21-days.html#answers), another very prominent computer scientist at Google.
These numbers have been updated and represented by many since then. The most recent numbers I could find are from Colin Scott (https://colin-scott.github.io/blog/2012/12/24/latency-trends/), a software engineer at Google, who has been guessing how the numbers change based on historical trends in computer hardware. I got the following numbers from Jonas Bonér, the creator of akka and the CTO ...
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