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 <s...@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. Frederick Wessling (CIO) Succinct Systems LLC Cell: +1(561) 571-2799 Office: +1(904) 758-9915 ext. 9925 Fax: +1(904) 758-9987 www.SuccinctSystems.com
