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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For March 22nd, 2019

High Scalability

Let them dogfood the software patch. skamille : I worry that the cloud is just moving us back to a world of proprietary software. µs of replication latency on lossy Ethernet, which is faster than or comparable to specialized replication systems that use programmable switches, FPGAs, or RDMA.". We achieve 5.5

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A 5G future

O'Reilly

Back in the 1980s, Nicholas Negroponte said everything wired will become wireless, and everything wireless will become wired. Can 5G replace wired broadband, allowing one wireless service for home and mobile connectivity? Reliability will be an even bigger problem than latency. I don’t, do you? So where is 5G useful?

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HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2)

Smashing Magazine

Because we are dealing with network protocols here, we will mainly look at network aspects, of which two are most important: latency and bandwidth. Latency can be roughly defined as the time it takes to send a packet from point A (say, the client) to point B (the server). Two-way latency is often called round-trip time (RTT).

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HTTP/3: Practical Deployment Options (Part 3)

Smashing Magazine

Finally, not inlining resources has an added latency cost because the file needs to be requested. As such, many firewall vendors currently recommend blocking QUIC until they can update their software. Packet loss on cable might be bursty, but wireless links might benefit more from QUIC’s head-of-line blocking removal.

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