Latest news, technical deep dives, and perspectives from the Zenlayer team on global infrastructure, edge computing, and networking.
Vietnam has 54M+ gamers. Serving them from Singapore crosses outage-prone cables, so real-time games run better in-country and new regulation is making it a rule.
APAC crypto matching engines run in AWS Tokyo. A trading server in the same metro sits about 2 ms away — and wins fills a box in the US or Europe can't.
South Korea's bandwidth carries a premium and Tokyo sits about 22 ms from Seoul. For many teams the cheaper way to serve South Korean users is to host in Tokyo, not Seoul. Here's when that's the right call, and when it isn't.
How Zenlayer redesigned host networking on the EPYC 9654 fleet to eliminate NUMA cross-node penalties and push PPS from 18M to 40M with two ConnectX-6 NICs.