gstaro

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by gstaro 8y ago
There are several reasons why Internet latency is inflated over direct-route speed-of-light latency. Some reasons may change others may not. 1) speed of light in fibre is 2/3c - unlikely to change soon 2) fibre is laid in the ground on
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by gstaro 8y ago
The way I understand this proposal, the idea is to find at which request rate the latency of a storage configuration (eg, 2x Optane) explodes. If your request rate is above that rate, get more RAM. I'm not sure I understand how to figu
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by gstaro 8y ago
Thanks for clarifying!
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by gstaro 8y ago
Can't you do that with DNS records where there are multiple IPs on a A record? Basically, we're already doing this for fault tolerance and load balancing within a single CDN. Except that currently we randomize the IPs. To enforce
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by gstaro 8y ago
Another pointer to a paper that seems related: https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi18/presentation/beckma... This is a very hot topic recently. It seems to me that several communities (databases, CDNs, stor
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by gstaro 8y ago
Partial discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18307077
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by gstaro 8y ago
Partial discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18307077
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by gstaro 8y ago
How widely has this been tested? Is this being used in production?
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by gstaro 8y ago
Is there a service where you can pull constantly updated info about time zones etc? Like a library?
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by gstaro 8y ago
Thx for the clarification. Had the same misconception
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by gstaro 8y ago
Sounds like a marketing blurb but from just a few days ago: "Azure is breaking the speed barrier in cloud connectivity. ExpressRoute Direct provides 100G connectivity for customers with extreme bandwidth needs. This is 10x faster than