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> Yes!!! I have been saying for years that lower level protocols are a bad joke at this point, but nobody in the industry wants to invest in making things bette
by simplotek 4y ago
> Yes!!! I have been saying for years that lower level protocols are a bad joke at this point, but nobody in the industry wants to invest in making things better. There are so many improvements we could be making, but corporations don't see any "immediate shareholder value", so they sit around happy as pigs in shit with the status quo.
If this was true then how do you explain that the likes of AWS, the same company who ended up investing in developing their own processor line, doesn't seem to agree that none of the pet peeves you mentioned are worth fixing?
- emn13 4y agoIt's not obvious to me that replacing TCP really is harder than designing your "own" chip. Scarequotes here because those graviton chips (that's what you're referring to, I think?) are of course ARM chips, so they're not designing something fresh; they're adapting a very mature design to their own needs. In terms of interoperability, a custom chip based on a standard design is probably a simpler, more locally addressable problem than new network protocols. Isn't it plausible that graviton was designed yet TCP retained simply because graviton as a project is easier to complete successfully?
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- xxpor 4y agohttps://aws.amazon.com/blogs/hpc/in-the-search-for-performance-theres-more-than-one-way-to-build-a-network/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/hpc/in-the-search-for-performan...