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Re:Comcast: Simulating shitty network connections so you can... by kodah on Saturday July 16, 2022 @09:33AM (#32117895)
There's an old paper on that networking, by design, is not reliable or efficient - which is more cogent than ever in large scale distributed systems. What Comcast would cite would likely be that, so I doubt it would reveal the quiet part said out loud about the reliability of Comcast's services.

A couple citations I liked:

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2655736

https://blog.acolyer.org/2014/12/18/the-network-is-reliable/

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Re:Comcast: Simulating shitty network connections so you can... by mh- on Saturday July 16, 2022 @12:54PM (#32119813)
> cogent

No, comcast. :)

Jokes aside, that paper is very worth reading. And HN readers will recognize one of the authors as the creator of Jepsen, of distributed database testing fame.

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