On Sun, 25 Jan 2015, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote:
The Computer Scientist will cringe at the 'hacks' that this introduces, but
there is far more progress made when new capabilities can be added in a way
that's transparent to other layers of the stack then when it requires major
changes to how things work.
Otherwise known as the "Just throw an F5 in front of the whole mess" school
of network design... :)
Much as you may hate the abuse of standards and protocols that F5 and other load
balancers use to trick both clients and servers into operating without knowing
that there are multiple machines serving a website, they do make things a lot
more better than if you tried make a website reliable and scale without them.
"theoretically better" is trumped by "it works" any day. For something that's
theoretically better to win it needs to be implemented and be better in practice
as well.
David Lang
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