Latency Interview Question Solved: Just Send Users to Australia

Description

A Twitter/X screenshot meme. A tweet by 'Shreya' (@Obliviou..., handle partially redacted in red) poses an interview question: 'Interviewer: Your page loads in 80 ms in Australia but 600 ms in India. Same backend. Same code. What would you use to fix this?' Below it is an illustration of a smug, well-dressed Pepe-style frog in a white shirt and black tie, calmly sipping coffee at an office desk with a monitor, keyboard, and mouse. At the bottom, circled in blue, a reply from 'ankeet' (@ankeet..., partially redacted) answers: 'will send users to australia.' The humor lies in sidestepping the expected answer (CDN, edge caching, geo-distributed infrastructure) with absurd lateral thinking that technically satisfies the latency requirement

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Technically it's the ultimate edge deployment: move the users to the edge

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Technically it's the ultimate edge deployment: move the users to the edge
Anonymous

Latency solved at Layer 8; airfare not included.
@azizhakberdiev 5mo

paywall app in india
@kandiesky 5mo

Or your can just geoblock India cause it's clearly fucking over your good metrics
@Capstra 5mo

a brit spotted
Zeno Bin Kanaan 5mo

if requesting IP == from india thread.sleep(5000)
@mrfoxy_developer 5mo

use VPN
@tishin_daniil 5mo

Why would i care anyway?
@arseny_chebyshev 5mo

check who pays more by region. calculate if CDN for India is feasible, probably yea
@GlassySundew 5mo

nuke india