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Discussion on: How would you go about providing minimal-latency web experience for a single local event?

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Lorenzo Pasqualis

I am not sure if this what you are looking for, but a local (to the conference) Proxy server is how this kind of thing is usually done.

It functions as a cache. If your requests are mostly GETs with no parameters, they are served from the local cache. The user is completely unaware of the caching. You can also make the caching more aggressive and cache some GETs with parameters (for example, search results).

Usually, the biggest problem is the WiFi connection. I have never seen that kind of thing work flawlessly in large conferences such as Re:Invent. There are always some issues.

A peer-to-peer solution would probably create even more problems due to the increased WiFi traffic.