Dhillon: You can buy network bandwidth, but latency comes from God
Gaurav Dhillon · a16z Podcast | From Data Warehouses to Data Lakes · Jan 2, 2019 · at 23:27
Gaurav Dhillon highlights why certain factory floor, machine, and power plant data will remain on-premises rather than moving to the cloud due to physical latency constraints.
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“For some machine data, factory floor data, power plant data, it may not go just because, you know, bandwidth you can buy, but latency you get from God.”
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