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I love the "follow the moon" idea; I picture the globe spinning and sparks of data processing jumping from node to node to stay out of the sun. It's pretty. Uh
by seldo 17y ago
I love the "follow the moon" idea; I picture the globe spinning and sparks of data processing jumping from node to node to stay out of the sun.
It's pretty. Uh, in my head.
- pbz 17y agoExcept that the latency for those following the sun would suck pretty much all the time.
- silentOpen 17y agoYou don't serve user loads from infrastructure that "follows the moon". Google does a ton of batch processing and it doesn't care where it computes so long as it has data (either migrating with it or available via tubes).