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Tcp is also extremely battletested and performs well not just theoretically but in the face of other traffic (congestion) and in many different environments. B
by klabb3 3y ago
Tcp is also extremely battletested and performs well not just theoretically but in the face of other traffic (congestion) and in many different environments.
Beating TCP reliability and performance is an extremely ambitious endeavor in practice. Add wide interop to that list and it becomes next to impossible.
- rewmie 3y agoIt's also important to have an idea what are the theoretical gains to be had with this work. It would make no sense to mess with infrastructure at this level of the tech stack if the ballpark estimates of potential gains are in the single-digit percent points. In this scenario it would be much more efficient to either go with horizontal scaling or look into the possibility of shaving off some requests.
- jeffbee 3y agoSorry, no. At this scale, if google thought they could shave single digits off their cpu costs they would staff a team to do it. If they thought the digit was “9” they would put dozens of people on it.
- rewmie 3y ago> At this scale, if google (...) How many companies do you know who operate nearly as many servers as Google?