Presumably less compression and fewer ways to install only necessary assets (such as only downloading audio for used languages)

Journal articles are one place where unknown references are expected and the poster should be citing them in a bibliography, even pop culture or joke references.

Exactly! Blockchain and PoW are terrible but id really like to know how much time and electricity is consumed to serve ads, cool servers, train and educate people to effectively become ad engineers.

This comment feels like a Poes Law situation… surely this is a bit, right?

I have no idea, just inferred that from some other posts.

The basic idea is to keep data as close to the processor as possible, so with a database that means storing the result of commonly used queries in memory.

• https://aws.amazon.com/caching/
• https://aws.amazon.com/caching/database-caching/

There’s no need to migrate the database, that shouldn’t be an issue at this size. Caching should be implemented as another comment suggested.

I’d be interested as well.