Is It Time to Replace TCP in Data Centers?

Re:Is It Time to Replace TCP in Data Centers? by opportune on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @02:28PM (#34901268)

I work in cloud and that doesn’t even phase me. A lot of people want to write applications in Node or don’t understand/want to deal with concurrency, leave cores stranded, etc. You pay a premium for it but it’s their decision.

Anyway, for people who pick relatively more sane application languages, yeah deserialization is pretty much all their CPU does. It’s just such a shame because it really is a godawful format, just like HTTP/1, its basically only benefit is that it’s easily human-readable.

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Re:Is It Time to Replace TCP in Data Centers? by imtringued on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @05:22PM (#34903811)

You must not be very experienced with other formats. The primary reason why fixed schema formats haven't been widely adopted is that schema evolution is more important.

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Re:Is It Time to Replace TCP in Data Centers? by opportune on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @08:16PM (#34905520)

I’m quite experienced with protobufs and they handle it well enough. Having no schema doesn’t address the root problem of API producers/consumers needing to manage schema changes together.

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