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Re:Google opens Falcon, a reliable low-latency hardware tran... by marcosdumay on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @10:07PM (#37924094)
> Another random example is HTTP/3, which is basically the "What's best for Google" protocol.

HTTP/2 is that. The version 3 is... quite great, and not really originary from there.

And gRPC is some self-contained thing that doesn't bother anybody.

I do really agree with your point. But those examples are bad, and yet another non-standard cloud service isn't also a good example.

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Re:Google opens Falcon, a reliable low-latency hardware tran... by jiggawatts on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @10:37PM (#37924283)
For example, HTTP/3 uses QPACK, which has a static predefined list of HTTP header strings included in the standard.

What strings you ask?

The top hits Google captured from their data centre egress.

E.g.: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-quic-qpack-20.htm...

Notice that "content-encoding" includes br (Brotli), a Google compression algorithm that essentially only they were using at the time.

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Re:Google opens Falcon, a reliable low-latency hardware tran... by tgma on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @10:42PM (#37924315)
I don't understand what the objection is to the methodology. Are you claiming there is another party that has a better sample (even subjectively so) and was pushing it and didn't succeed? If anything, standards committees are often overly annoying and biased the other way just because some other company representative wants to justify their presence. That is also cherry picked. For example standardizing ALPN over NPN which is largely a downgrade for the average user done in the standard process. The examples you use simply indicate a certain company is ahead of the game in solving problems others also have.
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Re:Google opens Falcon, a reliable low-latency hardware tran... by petters on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @10:22PM (#37924206)
It’s not from there? HTTP/3 is QUIC, right?
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Re:Google opens Falcon, a reliable low-latency hardware tran... by marcosdumay on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @10:37PM (#37924287)
Oh you are right, QUIC is from there. I misremembered it.
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Re:Google opens Falcon, a reliable low-latency hardware tran... by speed_spread on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @11:48PM (#37924664)
And QUIC/HTTP3 was invented by Google to deliver more ads, faster. Yay.
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Re:Google opens Falcon, a reliable low-latency hardware tran... by vore on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @12:20AM (#37924801)
This is like saying planes were invented to deliver you to more businesses, faster.
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Re:Google opens Falcon, a reliable low-latency hardware tran... by speed_spread on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @11:33AM (#37930157)
At least I enjoy taking the plane and I decide when to take it. Planes serve a purpose. Adtech is just parasitic. An Internet without ads wouldn't need QUIC.
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