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title: "Top 5 Strategies to Reduce Latency"
description: "Explore top strategies to minimize latency in high-scale systems."
image: "https://assets.bytebytego.com/diagrams/0375-top-5-strategies-to-reduce-latency.png"
createdAt: "2024-02-21"
draft: false
categories:
  - caching-performance
tags:
  - "Latency"
  - "Optimization"
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![](https://assets.bytebytego.com/diagrams/0375-top-5-strategies-to-reduce-latency.png)

10 years ago, Amazon found that every 100ms of latency cost them 1% in sales. That’s a staggering $5.7 billion in today’s terms.

For high-scale user-facing systems, high latency is a big loss of revenue.

Here are the top strategies to reduce latency:

*   **Database Indexing**
*   **Caching**
*   **Load Balancing**
*   **Content Delivery Network**
*   **Async Processing**
*   **Data Compression**