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# CMPT 815 Term Project by Atridad Lahiji - Performance Analysis of Multi-Region Web Application Distribution Strategies # CMPT 815 Term Project by Atridad Lahiji - Performance Analysis of Multi-Region Web Application Distribution Strategies
## THIS IS STILL WIP
## Background ## Background
In this project, I investigate the performance characteristics of running web applications in a distributed manner. The core of the issue here is the idea that physical distance in networking introduces the issue of latency, which in this context is the time taken to transmit or receive data from a web server. The web server here, in many cases, tends to live in North America, and more specifically, in the USA. This poses an issue for users on the other side of the world. For instance, the experience for a user in New Zealand will be significantly worse than a user in Canada when accessing services hosted in common locations such as US-WEST-1 via AWS. This can be seen in a more concrete example, where it can take nearly a second to load my [personal website](https://atri.dad) from western Canada, since it is hosted in Germany. This inequality of the web is something that I took to investigate. Distributed systems over the globe is not new in practice. The goal here was to thoroughly test the performance characteristics of these systems once you scale out all of its moving pieces. In this project, I investigate the performance characteristics of running web applications in a distributed manner. The core of the issue here is the idea that physical distance in networking introduces the issue of latency, which in this context is the time taken to transmit or receive data from a web server. The web server here, in many cases, tends to live in North America, and more specifically, in the USA. This poses an issue for users on the other side of the world. For instance, the experience for a user in New Zealand will be significantly worse than a user in Canada when accessing services hosted in common locations such as US-WEST-1 via AWS. This can be seen in a more concrete example, where it can take nearly a second to load my [personal website](https://atri.dad) from western Canada, since it is hosted in Germany. This inequality of the web is something that I took to investigate. Distributed systems over the globe is not new in practice. The goal here was to thoroughly test the performance characteristics of these systems once you scale out all of its moving pieces.