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Kind of interesting to speculate what kind of traffic needs to transit and what doesn't. It would be a major efficiency failure if the services you mentioned ne
by javajosh 4y ago
Kind of interesting to speculate what kind of traffic needs to transit and what doesn't. It would be a major efficiency failure if the services you mentioned needed to transit the atlantic for any reason. "Maybe all of their web properties are designed with multiple HA zones." I don't think it's physically possible that Google could do what it does without a comprehensive edge network.
- Chabsff 4y agoThey sure do have one: https://peering.google.com/#/infrastructure https://peering.google.com/#/infrastructure
- nixcraft 4y agoWhat fantastic info that answers my questions. Thanks for sharing it.
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- jeffbee 4y agoI would expect mail delivery flows cross the entire network on average because the mail arrives from places that are in no way related to where the user account is homed.
- the-rc 4y agoI did capacity planning for a large user facing service more than a decade ago. Not only we had global N+2 redundancy (we could still serve peak traffic if we lost the two largest clusters worldwide), but I also made sure we had at least N+1 per "continent". That's how I managed to get resources for us in the infamous, reserved and now long gone Budapest cluster(s), whose only other tenant was Gmail.