API Latency
Definition & Industry Concept
The round-trip time elapsed between a client dispatching a network request and parsing the fully hydrated API response payload, heavily influenced by edge physical proximity and database IO.
💡 Practical Market Application
Edge caching endpoints across CDN pops to drive high-frequency financial order book response latency below 20ms.
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