On 7/14/20 4:14 PM, Matthew Petach wrote:
On Tue, Jul 14, 2020, 11:00 Ahmed elBorno <amaged@gmail.com <mailto:amaged@gmail.com>> wrote:
15 years ago, I applied to a network admin role at Google, it was for their corporate office, not even the production network.
I had less than two years experience.
The interviewer asked me: [...] 2) If we had a 1GB file that we need to transfer between America and Europe, how much time do we need, knowing that we start with a TCP size of X
Well, the first question is the available end-to-end bandwidth. Pretty much everything else is irrelevant. Of course, I might ask them what they mean by "size." Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra Theory is when you know everything but nothing works. Practice is when everything works but no one knows why. In our lab, theory and practice are combined: nothing works and no one knows why. ... unknown