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Interesting. If you click on one of the blue circles representing a data center, it shows latencies to the other data centers. This took me a second to figure o

Interesting. If you click on one of the blue circles representing a data center, it shows latencies to the other data centers. This took me a second to figure out — maybe consider adding a note along the lines of “click to select a data center” on the site?

WaxProlix 2y ago
These aren't even data centers, but aggregates. They're regions, composed of many different bits of networking and compute in various levels of abstraction - dc, edge installation, whatever. Within these regions there's a lot of variation from zone to zone, so the methodology matters.
bddicken 2y ago
Author here. This is great feedback, thanks.
- jumploops 2y ago
  Idea: select a data center by default (i.e. us-east-1) to make it more clear. Bonus: select the nearest data center based on the user’s IP :)
  - mvanbaak 2y ago
    Nitpick detail: us-east-1 (and all other availability zones) are also not a single datacenter by definition. The can also spend several
- hyperpape 2y ago
  I appreciate the effort to collect the data, but I think the rotating globe is an idea that looks cool, but makes the visualization harder to use. If I click on us-east-1, there's a 229ms line to...somewhere that I can't see. Meanwhile, I can't see the latency between us-east-1 and us-east-2. Perhaps if you selected a datacenter, and it switched to a 2-d projection with that datacenter at the center of the map, it would be better? Or perhaps augment the visualization with a table?
  - dredmorbius 2y ago
    Winkel Tripel projection would mitigate this nicely. (One of several options, though the best IMO.) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winkel_tripel_projection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winkel_tripel_projection>
  - bddicken 2y ago
    Author here - You can see the raw data as a table here: https://www.cloudping.co https://www.cloudping.co. Sometimes visualizations like this are a careful act of balancing practicality with cool-factor.

WaxProlix 2y ago

These aren't even data centers, but aggregates. They're regions, composed of many different bits of networking and compute in various levels of abstraction - dc, edge installation, whatever. Within these regions there's a lot of variation from zone to zone, so the methodology matters.

bddicken 2y ago

Author here. This is great feedback, thanks.

jumploops 2y ago
Idea: select a data center by default (i.e. us-east-1) to make it more clear. Bonus: select the nearest data center based on the user’s IP :)
- mvanbaak 2y ago
  Nitpick detail: us-east-1 (and all other availability zones) are also not a single datacenter by definition. The can also spend several
hyperpape 2y ago
I appreciate the effort to collect the data, but I think the rotating globe is an idea that looks cool, but makes the visualization harder to use. If I click on us-east-1, there's a 229ms line to...somewhere that I can't see. Meanwhile, I can't see the latency between us-east-1 and us-east-2. Perhaps if you selected a datacenter, and it switched to a 2-d projection with that datacenter at the center of the map, it would be better? Or perhaps augment the visualization with a table?
- dredmorbius 2y ago
  Winkel Tripel projection would mitigate this nicely. (One of several options, though the best IMO.) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winkel_tripel_projection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winkel_tripel_projection>
- bddicken 2y ago
  Author here - You can see the raw data as a table here: https://www.cloudping.co https://www.cloudping.co. Sometimes visualizations like this are a careful act of balancing practicality with cool-factor.