Google opens Falcon, a reliable low-latency hardware transport, to the ecosystem

Re:Google opens Falcon, a reliable low-latency hardware tran... by tgma on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @09:49PM (#37923966)

This is exaggerated to the point that I consider it fiction. BTW Google doesn't substantially use gRPC within their datacenters.

The industry has always been this way. Back in the day there was many many processor ISAs that are now consolidated. There was been many networking standards that consolidated (IPX/SPX anyone?) New things often diverge because of new requirements not out of spite. There is a push and pull between standardization and innovation. Doesn't make it particularly unhealthy unless you can point to specific metrics and compare trends throughout the long arc of time.

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Re:Google opens Falcon, a reliable low-latency hardware tran... by bhawks on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @10:15PM (#37924151)

> This is exaggerated to the point that I consider it fiction. BTW Google doesn't substantially use gRPC within their datacenters.

For explicitness Google uses stubby which shares a lot of interface level commonality with gRPC but there's differences at a runtime level. Nobody is slinging json or soap around Google data centers.

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Re:Google opens Falcon, a reliable low-latency hardware tran... by tgma on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @10:20PM (#37924189)

And gRPC is basically HTTP/2. Difficult to get more standards-friendly than that.

I suppose when some people advocate for "standards" they just mean the shitty systems prevalent in the industry they happen to have been used to.

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Re:Google opens Falcon, a reliable low-latency hardware tran... by fragmede on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @07:45AM (#37927327)

> For explicitness Google uses

Japanese Bullet Train technology

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