Chatty I/O
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What is Chatty I/O?
The cumulative effect of a large number of I/O requests can have a significant impact on performance and responsiveness.
Network calls and other I/O operations are inherently slow compared to compute tasks. Each I/O request typically has significant overhead, and the cumulative effect of numerous I/O operations can slow down the system. Here are some common causes of chatty I/O.
- Reading and writing individual records to a database as distinct requests
- Implementing a single logical operation as a series of HTTP requests
- Reading and writing to a file on disk
Free resources to learn Chatty I/O
- ArticleChatty I/O antipattern
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Chatty I/O: common questions
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Is this Chatty I/O tutorial for beginners?
It is lesson 81 of 147 in the free System Design roadmap, in stage 18, Monitoring. If you are new to System Design, start from stage 1 and come back here in order; if you already know the earlier stages, this lesson stands on its own.