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

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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