And we may still see the web stack being the ultimate cause of the delay. Parkinson's law always comes to the rescue:-) More faster and efficient processing architecture, Hyper transport buses, amd-64 Branch prediction. Massively faster storage subsystems and disk arrays, SSD slab caching for hypervisors And some dude with a AJAX framework to serve a PDF bringging the whole thing to a a screeching halt On April 17, 2019 10:35:29 PM EDT, Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> wrote:
On Wed, 17 Apr 2019, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
Things will probably be easier this time. The Internet has evolved ways of dealing with exactly this problem. (Avi used to call it “slash-dot
insurance”, but the idea is the same.) Specifically:
Yep, it will be interesting to see where the chokepoints are tommorrow.
In 1998, the bandwidth pipes never filled up. The chokepoint was in the
TCP and Web stacks. Eventually the Associated Press got a copy of the Starr Report on a CD from a congressional staffer. The press intern running down the street holding a CD was faster than 1998 internet :-)
We were also lucky in 1998, no one had thought of DDOS yet.
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