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Obligatory Tanenbaum quote: "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway."
by wheels 17y ago
Obligatory Tanenbaum quote:
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway."
- jeffbarr 17y agoIndeed, so obligatory that I included it in my blog post: http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2009/05/send-us-that-data.html http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2009/05/send-us-that-data.html
- jimbokun 17y agoKudos (to all of you at Amazon) for being the first to turn that quote into a product feature. Certainly seems obvious in retrospect.
- Skeuomorph 17y agoOn the contrary, video delivery networks (VDNs) have been recommending loading data this way for years, such as one that's routinely internationally FedEx-ing those cheap 2TB "network" drives back and forth in small white mil-spec shipping cases.
- jjs 17y agoSometimes a big truck has more bandwidth than a series of tubes...
- eugenejen 17y agoBandwidth and latency are two different things. But it seems we are so often confused by these two concepts. I feel funny because Werner Vogels is Andy Tannenbaum's phd student. That's how a concept propagates from one generation to next.
- tophat02 17y agoTerrible latency, though.